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The Automobile Club of Egypt
Alaa Aswany
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Description for The Automobile Club of Egypt
Paperback. From the bestselling author of The Yacoubian Building comes a novel bursting at the seams with Egyptian life Translator(s): Harris, Russell. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 2. Weight in Grams: 322.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857862211
SKU
V9780857862211
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99-8
About Alaa Aswany
Alaa Al Aswany's first novel The Yacoubian Building was longlisted for The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2006 and has sold over a million copies worldwide. He is also the author of Chicago and the short story collection, Friendly Fire. His work has been translated into 29 languages and published in over 100 countries. Al Aswany was named by The Times as one of the best 50 authors to have been translated into English in the last 50 years. He speaks Arabic, English, French, and Spanish.
Reviews for The Automobile Club of Egypt
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
A sharp, humorous novel
CAROLINE MOORHEAD
Spectator
The Yacoubian author is back with another swarming depiction of a changing world
Sunday Times
There are many stories here. The book is elaborate to bursting point, but always controlled, always whole. It is as juicy and satisfying as a shiny apple, its taste both strange and familiar, compassionate and bitter
The Times
Fabulous, acutely observed story of human foibles, full of vivid scenes and extraordinary characters
Mail on Sunday
Addictively readable
Independent
Absorbing
Observer
Bewitching
Scotsman
Myriad colourful details, intertwining narratives, and dramatic cliffhangers form an earthy, entertaining contrast to the novel's sober preoccupations - namely, the human spirit's capacity to both transcend and be crushed by oppressive systems
Publishers Weekly
Praise for Chicago: Brilliant . . . Al Aswany is like an Egyptian Anne Tyler
Sunday Times
A powerful, political page-turner
Daily Mail
A masterpiece, the warmest and finest and most involving Egyptian novel in the last thirty years
Open Letters Monthly
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
A sharp, humorous novel
CAROLINE MOORHEAD
Spectator
The Yacoubian author is back with another swarming depiction of a changing world
Sunday Times
There are many stories here. The book is elaborate to bursting point, but always controlled, always whole. It is as juicy and satisfying as a shiny apple, its taste both strange and familiar, compassionate and bitter
The Times
Fabulous, acutely observed story of human foibles, full of vivid scenes and extraordinary characters
Mail on Sunday
Addictively readable
Independent
Absorbing
Observer
Bewitching
Scotsman
Myriad colourful details, intertwining narratives, and dramatic cliffhangers form an earthy, entertaining contrast to the novel's sober preoccupations - namely, the human spirit's capacity to both transcend and be crushed by oppressive systems
Publishers Weekly
Praise for Chicago: Brilliant . . . Al Aswany is like an Egyptian Anne Tyler
Sunday Times
A powerful, political page-turner
Daily Mail
A masterpiece, the warmest and finest and most involving Egyptian novel in the last thirty years
Open Letters Monthly