Book record
A Horse at the Door
Wadih Saadeh
Translated from Arabic by Robin Moger
A Horse at the Door by Wadih Saadeh, translated from Arabic by Robin Moger and published by Tenement Press, is a book rooted in Lebanon. Saadeh’s A Horse at the Door, translated by Robin Moger, carries the immediacy of a fable interrupted by daily life. A horse at the door is messenger, burden, myth, intrusion, companion, or omen. As Arabic poetry from Lebanon, the book likely lets ordinary thresholds open into political and existential unease. I would read it for the charged simplicity of image: the animal waiting, the door not yet opened, the reader unsure what has arrived. Its value in the library is not only informational, but atmospheric: it gives readers another way to hear how a language thinks.
- Publisher
- Tenement Press
- Language
- Arabic
- Country
- Lebanon