Is the Sheil a Shill? Informal Credit in Rural Sudan
1993; Western Illinois University; Volume: 27; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1548-2278
Autores Tópico(s)Land Rights and Reforms
ResumoThen I saw them dividing up the sacks between them. Hussein the merchant took ten; each of the strangers took five. Mousa the owner of the field next to ours on the eastern side took five, and my grandfather took five. Understanding nothing, I looked at Masood and saw that his eyes were darting about to left and right like two mice that have lost their way home. You're still fifty pounds in debt to me, said my grandfather to Masood, We'll talk about it later. -Tayeb Salih, A Handful of Dates, in The Wedding of Zein and Other Stories
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