The Automobile Club of Egypt
Alaa Al Aswany author Russell Harris translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Canongate Books
Published:5th Jan '17
Should be back in stock very soon
Cairo at the very end of Ottoman rule. Behind the doors of the Automobile Club of Egypt, Egyptian staff attend to the every need of Cairo's European elite - the way they always have done, it seems.
But soon the social upheaval out on the street will break its way through the club's gilded doors, and its inhabitants above and below stairs must all confront their choices: to live safely without dignity, or to fight for their rights and risk everything.
A microcosm of corruption and oppression in Egypt . . . Aswany brings a mix of burning indignation and unstoppable exuberance that is all his own to this swarming picture of a world on the brink of shattering change * * Sunday Times * *
One of Egypt's most valuable writers * * Guardian * *
A scathing, brilliantly executed novel * * New York Times * *
A wonderful storyteller * * Spectator * *
Among the best writers in the Middle East today . . . Al Aswany has his own magic * * Guardian * *
A master observer of the human condition . . . unputdownable * * Literary Review * *
Gripping . . . a page-turner * * Toronto Star * *
Seductive . . . boasts rich and rewarding material * * Boston Globe * *
Wonderful . . . almost impossible to put down . . . combines terrific storytelling with historical empathy * * Star Tribune * *
[A] raucous, technicolor novel . . . its blazing heart is the seething discontent that led to the 1952 Revolution * * Booklist * *
ISBN: 9780857862211
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 29mm
Weight: 318g
480 pages
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