Zakaria Tamer is a Syrian writer. He is the author of numerous short story collections including Breaking Knees: Modern Arabic Short Stories from Syria and Tigers on the Tenth Day.Alessandro Columbu is a lecturer in Arabic at the University of Westminster in London. He is the author of Zakariyya Tamir and the Politics of the Syrian Short Story.Mireia Costa Capallera is a professional translator. She has a masters degree in Contemporary Arabic Studies and speaks six languages.

Well crafted, richly imagined and full of vitality. Tamer’s colourful cast includes convicts, rogues, officials, singers and squabbling lovers - Malcolm Forbes (The National) This collection shows Tamer at the height of his craft. His short stories in Sour Grapes are wry, iconoclastic, and always arresting. (Nader Uthman, Harvard University, translator of Traces: A Memoir) Tamer offers few of the usual lazy satisfactions of neighborhood/small-town-fiction but still offers a well-formed world (and world-view) that is consistently (if often also disturbingly) compelling.A solid collection, in comfortably bite-sized pieces. - M.A. Orthofer (The Complete Review)

Zakaria Tamer is a Syrian writer. He is the author of numerous short story collections including Breaking Knees: Modern Arabic Short Stories from Syria and Tigers on the Tenth Day.Alessandro Columbu is a lecturer in Arabic at the University of Westminster in London. He is the author of Zakariyya Tamir and the Politics of the Syrian Short Story.Mireia Costa Capallera is a professional translator. She has a masters degree in Contemporary Arabic Studies and speaks six languages.

Well crafted, richly imagined and full of vitality. Tamer’s colourful cast includes convicts, rogues, officials, singers and squabbling lovers - Malcolm Forbes (The National) This collection shows Tamer at the height of his craft. His short stories in Sour Grapes are wry, iconoclastic, and always arresting. (Nader Uthman, Harvard University, translator of Traces: A Memoir) Tamer offers few of the usual lazy satisfactions of neighborhood/small-town-fiction but still offers a well-formed world (and world-view) that is consistently (if often also disturbingly) compelling.A solid collection, in comfortably bite-sized pieces. - M.A. Orthofer (The Complete Review)

Zakaria Tamer is a Syrian writer. He is the author of numerous short story collections including Breaking Knees: Modern Arabic Short Stories from Syria and Tigers on the Tenth Day.Alessandro Columbu is a lecturer in Arabic at the University of Westminster in London. He is the author of Zakariyya Tamir and the Politics of the Syrian Short Story.Mireia Costa Capallera is a professional translator. She has a masters degree in Contemporary Arabic Studies and speaks six languages.

Well crafted, richly imagined and full of vitality. Tamer’s colourful cast includes convicts, rogues, officials, singers and squabbling lovers - Malcolm Forbes (The National) This collection shows Tamer at the height of his craft. His short stories in Sour Grapes are wry, iconoclastic, and always arresting. (Nader Uthman, Harvard University, translator of Traces: A Memoir) Tamer offers few of the usual lazy satisfactions of neighborhood/small-town-fiction but still offers a well-formed world (and world-view) that is consistently (if often also disturbingly) compelling.A solid collection, in comfortably bite-sized pieces. - M.A. Orthofer (The Complete Review)