The House of Jasmine - Couverture souple

Abdel Meguid, Ibrahim

 
9781566568821: The House of Jasmine
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.

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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.

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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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Personne responsable
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