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From the most popular Egyptian novelist of his generation ( a suitable heir to the mantle worn by Naguib Mahfouz "The Guardian"), a rollicking, exuberant and powerfully moving story of a family swept up by social unrest in post World War II Cairo.
Once a respected landowner, Abd el-Aziz Gaafar fell into penury and moved his family to Cairo, where he was forced into menial work at the Automobile Club a refuge of colonial luxury for its European members. There, Alku, the lifelong Nubian retainer of Egypt s corrupt and dissolute king, lords it over the staff, a squabbling but tight-knit group, who live in perpetual fear, as they are thrashed for their mistakes, their wages dependent on Alku s whims. When, one day, Abd el-Aziz stands up for himself, he is beaten. Soon afterward, he dies, as much from shame as from his injuries, leaving his widow and four children further impoverished. The family s loss propels them down different paths: the responsible son, Kamel, takes over his late father s post in the Club s storeroom, even as his law school friends seduce him into revolutionary politics; Mahmud joins his brother working at the Club but spends his free time sleeping with older women for a fee, which he splits with his partner in crime, his devil-may-care workout buddy and neighbor, Fawzy; their greedy brother Said breaks away to follow ambitions of his own; and their only sister, Saleha, is torn between her dream of studying mathematics and the security of settling down as a wife and saving her family.
It is at the Club, too, that Kamel s dangerous politics will find the favor and patronage of the king s seditious cousin, an unlikely revolutionary plotter cum bon vivant. Soon, both servants and masters will be subsumed by the brewing social upheaval. And the Egyptians of the Automobile Club will face a stark choice: to live safely, but without dignity, or to fight for their rights and risk everything.
Full of absorbing incident, and marvelously drawn characters, Alaa Al Aswany s novel gives us Egypt on the brink of changes that resonate to this day. It is an irresistible confirmation of Al Aswany s reputation as one of the Middle East s most beguiling storytellers and insightful interpreters of the human spirit."
About the Author: ALAA AL ASWANY is the author of "The Yacoubian Building, "which was long-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2006 and was the best-selling novel in the Arab world for more than five years; "Chicago, "named by "Newsday" as the best translated novel of 2006; and the story collection "Friendly Fire." He has received numerous awards internationally, including the Bashrahil Prize for the Arabic novel, the Kavafis Award from Greece and the Premio Grinzane Cavour from Italy. He was recently named by the London" Times" as one of the best fifty authors to have been translated into English over the last fifty years. Translated from the Arabic by Russell Harris.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781410485915
  • Publisher: Thorndike Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Thorndike Press
  • Depth: 44
  • Height: 218 mm
  • No of Pages: 737
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 865 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1410485919
  • Publisher Date: 06 Jan 2016
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Edition: LRG
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 38 mm
  • Width: 142 mm


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