The Book of Cairo: A City in Short Fiction

Dekorationsartikel gehören nicht zum Leistungsumfang.

Sprache: Englisch

17,75 €*

inkl. MwSt.

Versandkostenfrei per Post / DHL

Lieferzeit 1-2 Wochen

Kategorien:

Der Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache verfasst.
Die Sprache der Produktbeschreibung und Details kann in Englisch angegeben sein. Sollten Sie Verständnisprobleme haben, wenden Sie sich gerne an uns.

Beschreibung

A police officer tortures one last suspect in the most important assignment of his career: to find the ultimate Truth... A woman confesses her love to a reclusive, masked man in a video rental shop... A disgraced doctor confronts a man whose job it is to create rumours that spread across Cairo... Founded over a thousand years ago under the sign of Mars "the victorious," Cairo has long been a welcoming destination for explorers and tourists, drawn by traces of the ancient cities of Memphis and Heliopolis. More recently, the Egyptian capital has become a city determined to forget. Since 2013, the events of the "Arab Spring" have been gradually erased from its official history. The present is now contested as writers are imprisoned, publishing houses raided, and independent news sites shut down. With a new Administrative Capital being built in the desert east of Cairo, the city's future is also unclear. Here ten new voices offer tentative glimpses into Cairene life, at a time when writing directly about Egypt's greatest challenges is often too dangerous. With intimate views of life, tinged with satire, surrealism, and humour, these stories guide us through the slums and suburbs, bars and backstreets of a city haunted by an unspoken past.

Über den Autor

Raph Cormack is a translator and PhD student in modern Arabic literature. He has worked as a translator for Egyptian playwright Ali Salem as well as running his own Arabic translation blog which has featured work by Mohammed Taymur, Ahmed al-Kashif, and Mohammed Ahmed Mahjoub, among others.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Reading the City
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781910974254
ISBN-10:	1910974250
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Hafez, Hatem Naji, Ahmed Eltoukhy, Nael al-Azab, Mohamed Salah Gamal, Areej Ja'far, Hend Abdelrahim, Eman Mawgoud, Hassan Abdel Karam, Nahla
Redaktion:	Cormack, Raph
Auflage:	None
Hersteller:	Comma Press Reading the City
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	198 x 128 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Raph Cormack
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.06.2019
Gewicht:	0,127 kg

Ähnliche Produkte