Chronicle of a last summer - Yasmine El Rashidi
a novel of Egypt
KORTE INHOUD
"A young Egyptian woman chronicles her personal and political coming of age in this debut novel. Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother's phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom window, watching the three state-sanctioned TV stations with the volume off, daydreaming about other lives. Underlying this claustrophobic routine is mystery and loss. Relatives mutter darkly about the newly-appointed President Mubarak. Everyone talks with melancholy about the past. People disappear overnight. Her own father has left, too--why, or to where, no one will say. We meet her across three decades, from youth to adulthood: As a six-year old absorbing the world around her, filled with questions she can't ask; as a college student and aspiring filmmaker pre-occupied with love, language, and the repression that surrounds her; and then later, in the turbulent aftermath of Mubarak's overthrow, as a writer exploring her own past....
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2016Uitgever: Tim Duggan Books181 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 077043729XISBN-13: 9780770437299Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Hardback met stofomslag in goede staat. Band wat vlekkerig. Binnenwerk netjes. Engelstalig.; 2016; First edition; Tim Duggan Books; 181 pagina's; Titel: Chronicle of a Last Summer. A Novel of Egypt; Ref: 220574 / H24P516B
