{"product_id":"9780857429537","title":"The Book of Sleep","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan id=\"_mce_caret\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eWhat is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states—metaphorically called death’s shadow or considered the very pinnacle of indolence—be envisioned as action and agency? And what do we become in sleep? What happens to the waking selves we understand ourselves to be?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten in the spring of 2013, as the Egyptian government of President Mohammed Morsi was unraveling in the face of widespread protests, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Book of Sleep\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a landmark in contemporary Arabic literature. Drawing on the devices and forms of poetry, philosophical reflection, political analysis, and storytelling, this genre-defying work presents us with an assemblage of fragments that combine and recombine, circling around their central theme but refusing to fall into its gravity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haytham El Wardany","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ Philosophy","offer_id":67815196033248,"sku":null,"price":10.25,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/sleep.jpg?v=1791484601","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/9780857429537","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}