{"product_id":"9781902932453","title":"Breaking Knees","description":"\u003cp\u003eWry, satirical, and bawdy, Zakaria Tamer's microfiction is always informed by his dark view of humanity and of Syrian society in particular. Through these mordant glimpses of corrupt, fearful lives under a violent dictatorship, it is possible to discern echoes of the storm that has brought Syria to near-disintegration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnsentimental and brilliantly compressed, these sixty-three stories are the work of a virtuoso.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eZakaria Tamer\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1931 in Damascus. A former journalist, he has written in a variety of forms, but the genre for which he is best known is \u003ci\u003eal-qissa al-qasira jjiddan\u003c\/i\u003e, the very short story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Garnet Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47062906634480,"sku":"9781902932453","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781902932453_p0.jpg?v=1763612516","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781902932453","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}