If an Egyptian cannot speak English : a novel / Noor Naga.

By:

Naga, Noor [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781644450819
164445081X

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Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

813/.6 23

LOC classification:

PR9199.4.N338 I4 2022

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
BOOK	Meaford Public Library Fiction	Fiction	FIC Naga (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlist 2022		23130

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"Winner of the Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize""--Cover.

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.

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