METRO - Couverture souple

El Shafee, Magdy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0805094881 ISBN 13 : 9780805094886

Editeur : Metropolitan, 2012

Synopsis

Depicting the financial and social insecurity afflicting young people in modern Cairo, Metro was the first adult graphic novel published (and subsequently banned) in Egypt, just three years before the Arab Spring.

In art as pulsing and immediate as Cairo itself, Magdy El Shafee delivers a prescient portrait of a crumbling society and Egypt's coming eruption. A powerful story of young men with nothing left to lose, Metro sounds the cry for a better, freer future.

When Shehab, a young software designer, runs afoul of a loan shark, all avenues of escape in Mubarak's corrupt, chaotic Egypt seem to be closed to him. Getting help from the bank is impossible without connections, and Shehab's uncle abroad wants nothing to do with his troubles. A powerful businessman offers assistance, but the next day Shehab sees him being stabbed in an alley--and the man's dying words suggest a conspiracy extending to the upper reaches of the regime.

Angry and broke, Shehab enlists his friend Mustafa in a bank heist--and falls into a vortex of financial and political corruption. On the run with a case full of money and evidence of murder, the two careen through Cairo's metro system, evading the police and the thugs who are out in force to crush antigovernment protests. The only allies who can help get them out of this mess, the friends realize, are a blind shoe-shine man and a muckraking journalist.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Born in Libya, Magdy El Shafee is a pharmacist and cartoonist. Recognized by UNESCO for his groundbreaking comics depictions of Egyptian life, El Shafee is known throughout the Arab world for his innovations in Arabic popular culture. Metro, which was banned in Egypt in 2008 and has thus far been sold in four languages, is El Shafee's first full-length book. He is currently at work on a cartoon autobiography.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Metropolitan
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0805094881
• ISBN 13: 9780805094886
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 108
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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