The House of Jasmine - Couverture souple

Abdel Meguid, Ibrahim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 156656882X ISBN 13 : 9781566568821

Editeur : Interlink Books, 2012

Synopsis

On June 13, 1974, Shagara, a low-level employee at the Alexandria shipyard, is charged with taking workers to cheer for the motorcade of Egyptian President Sadat and his guest President Nixon. Instructed to pay each worker half a pound at the end of Nixon’s visit, Shagara pays them half that, spares them the festivities, and pockets the difference. So begins The House of Jasmine, which follows Shagara, a loner who yearns for female companionship, as he traverses the city of Alexandria and tries to parse his feelings toward its changing landscape. Within the humor of this classic novel is nestled an indicting eyewitness account of this essential period of Egyptian history. In it one can observe the social changes and popular sentiments that comprise the prologue for the Egyptian revolution of January 2011.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ibrahim Abdel Meguid was awarded the 1996 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature. He is among Egypt’s best-known and highly acclaimed writers. Noha Radwan is assistant professor of Arabic and comparative literature at the University of California–Davis and author of Egyptian Colloquial Poetry in the Modern Arabic Canon.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Interlink Books
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 156656882X
• ISBN 13: 9781566568821
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
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