Playing Cards In Cairo: Mint Tea, Tarneeb and Tales of the City - Couverture souple

Miles, Hugh

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0349119791 ISBN 13 : 9780349119793

Editeur : Abacus, 2008

Synopsis

Recently installed in Cairo as a freelance journalist and expat barfly, Hugh Miles soon meets and falls in love with Roda, a beautiful Egyptian doctor, who introduces him to Egypt's favourite pastime, the card game tarneeb, to her all-female card circle, and to a previously unseen side of life in the Middle East's greatest city. While the women cut and shuffle, Miles listens to their stories and learns about what it means to be a young Muslim woman, dating, dieting and divorcing in a country where traditional Islamic values are in the ascendant. Yosra struggles with an addiction to prescription drugs; Nadia copes with a baby and an abusive husband; neighbour Reem comes to terms with plastic surgery gone wrong; while her sister attempts to conceal her secret love-marriage from her family and to breathe life into a clothes shop run by a regime apparatchik with an Islamist vision of retail. Hugh Miles takes a fascinating sideways look at the lives of young Egyptians, and finds himself on a romantic adventure that will lead him to Islam and bind him to the Arab world for ever.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Born in Saudi Arabia, Hugh Miles was educated in Libya and Eton and studied Arabic at Oxford and in the Yemen. He has written for the London Review of Books and the Sunday Times. He won The Times Young Journalist of the Year award in 2000.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Abacus
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0349119791
• ISBN 13: 9780349119793
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible