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On the State of Egypt: What Caused the Revolution by Alaa Al Aswany
$32.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
In the novels and short stories of Alaa Al Aswany, characters struggle with class differences, police brutality, poverty, sexual harassment and political corruption; now, in a new collection of essays, Al Aswany considers these same issues that torment modern Egyptian society. He has a great deal to say ...Show more
The Automobile Club of Egypt by Alaa Al Aswany
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
From Egypt's most popular novelist - an absorbing, exuberant and powerfully moving story of a family swept up by social unrest in post-World War II Cairo. Abd el-Aziz Gaafar, formerly a well-respected landowner now in the grip of penury, moved his family to Cairo and took on menial work at the Automobil ...Show more
The Republic of False Truths by Alaa Al Aswany
$32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'An amazing portrait of fanaticism and cynicism among Egyptian powermongers.' - ANDRE ACIMAN 'Al Aswany is a voice worth hearing from a country of which we know far too little.' - Sunday Times General Alwany is a pious man who loves his family. He also tortures and kills enemies of the state. Under th ...Show more
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
$28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
An international bestseller, 'The Yacoubian Building' is a mesmerising and controversial novel that is at once an impasssioned celebration and a ruthless dissection of a society dominated by bribery and corruption. The Yacoubian Building -- once grand, but now dilapidated -- stands on one of Cairo's mai ...Show more
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