The Man Who Was Thursday in Hausa (Mutumin da Ya Zama Alhamis a Hausa)

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The Man Who Was Thursday in Hausa: G. K. Chesterton’s novel of a poet turned detective among anarchists, subtitled A Nightmare, in a complete Hausa translation.

Original author: G. K. Chesterton. Original title: The Man Who Was Thursday. Translated into Hausa from the English original.

A wata maraice a Saffron Park, wani mawaƙi mai suna Gabriel Syme ya yi jayayya da wani mawaƙi ɗan tawaye. Kafin dare ya ƙare, Syme, wanda a ɓoye ɗan sanda ne mai yaƙi da ‘yan tawaye, ya tsinci kansa a cikin Babbar Majalisar ‘Yan Tawaye, inda kowane ɗan majalisa yake da sunan ranar mako, shi kuma ya zama Alhamis.

Shugaban majalisar, wani ƙaton mutum mai suna Lahadi, yana ba kowa tsoro. Syme ya yi ta farautar asirin ‘yan majalisar ta cikin London da Faransa, a cikin faɗan takuba da gudu, har ya kai ga wata gaskiya mai ban mamaki. Wannan labari na G. K. Chesterton, wanda ya kira shi mafarki mai ban tsoro, yana ɗaya daga cikin shahararrun littattafansa.

An fassara wannan labari daga Turanci, harshen da G. K. Chesterton ya rubuta shi. Asalin rubutun shi ne The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, wanda aka fara bugawa a shekarar 1908, a bugun Project Gutenberg mai lamba 1695. Waƙar da marubucin ya rubuta wa abokinsa Edmund Clerihew Bentley da babobi goma sha biyar na labarin suna nan yadda suke a asali.

About this edition: translated from the English text of Project Gutenberg #1695. Paperback, 152 x 229 mm, 204 pages, published by Colombo Aspen. Cover painting: John Atkinson Grimshaw, Reflections on the Thames, Westminster (1880).