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Private Pleasures
- A Modern Egyptian Novel
Engelsk Paperback
Private Pleasures
- A Modern Egyptian Novel
Engelsk Paperback

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Private Pleasures describes the three-day sex, drink, and drug binge of a thirty-something newsreader in the back streets and crumbling apartments of his native Giza, that pullulating mass of humanity that, like an ugly sister, sits opposite Cairo on the Nile’s west bank.
Pursued by an unshakable sense of impending doom that is only partly attributable to fear of retribution at the hands of a sadistic police officer with whose wife he is conducting a frenzied affair, the narrator observes, with fascinated horror, his own stumbling progress through a world of menace and wonder inhabited by philosophical prostitutes, nightmarish butchers, serene Quran-readers, pious family members, religious con-men, autistic tissue-sellers, and others. Milleresque in its treatment of sex, the novel captures the essence of the phantasmagoric world of the Egyptian mega-city, disintegrating under the pressures of its home-grown horrors while pining for the sublime.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9789774166013
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
9774166019
Udg. Dato:
3 okt 2013
Længde:
12mm
Bredde:
226mm
Højde:
151mm
Forlag:
The American University in Cairo Press
Oplagsdato:
3 okt 2013
Forfatter(e):
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