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Women of Karantina
- A Novel
Engelsk Paperback
Women of Karantina
- A Novel
Engelsk Paperback

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Back in the dog days of the early twenty-first century a pair of lovebirds fleeing a murder charge in Cairo pull in to Alexandria’s main train station. Fugitives, friendless, their young lives blighted at the root, Ali and Injy set about rebuilding, and from the coastal city’s arid soil forge a legend, a kingdom of crime, a revolution: Karantina.

Through three generations of Grand Guignol insanity, Nael Eltoukhy’s sly psychopomp of a narrator is our guide not only to the teeming cast of pimps, dealers, psychotics, and half-wits and the increasingly baroque chronicles of their exploits, but also to the moral of his tale. Defiant, revolutionary, and patriotic, are the rapists and thieves of Alexandria’s crime families deluded maniacs or is their myth of Karantina—their Alexandria reimagined as the once and future capital—what they believe it to be: the revolutionary dream made brick and mortar, flesh and bone?

Subversive and hilarious, deft and scalpel-sharp, Eltoukhy’s sprawling epic is a masterpiece of modern Egyptian literature. Mahfouz shaken by the tail, a lunatic dream, a future history that is the sanest thing yet written on Egypt’s current woes.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
312
ISBN-13:
9789774166624
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
9774166620
Udg. Dato:
10 nov 2014
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
229mm
Højde:
153mm
Forlag:
The American University in Cairo Press
Oplagsdato:
10 nov 2014
Forfatter(e):
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