If an Egyptian cannot speak English

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Naga, Noor

  • Titel: If an Egyptian cannot speak English : a novel / Noor Naga
  • Person(en): Naga, Noor [Verfasser*in]
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Originalsprache: Englisch
  • Umfang: 186 Seiten ; 21 cm
  • Erschienen: Minneapolis : Graywolf Press, 2022, © 2022
  • ISBN/Preis: 978-1-64445-081-9 Broschur : EUR 15.60
  • Schlagwörter: Fiktionale Darstellung
  • Anmerkungen: "Winner of the Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize""--Cover
  • Signatur: UNTERHALTUNG und KREATIVITÄT > Romane
  • Englisch NAGA Belletristik

Inhalt: In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living in a rooftop shack. She is a nostalgic daughter of immigrants "returning" to a country she's never been to before, teaching English and living in a light-filled flat with balconies on all sides. They fall in love and he moves in. But soon their desire--for one another, for the selves they want to become through the other--takes a violent turn that neither of them expected