Description
An Egyptian journalist in Iraq witnesses Saddam's rise to power while investigating the disappearance of an Iraqi woman.
About the Author
Hala El Badry is deputy editor in chief of Egypt's radio and television magazine. She is the author of four novels, including A Certain Woman (AUC Press, 2003) and Muntaha (AUC Press, 2006). Farouk Abdel Wahab is Ibn Rushd Professorial Lecturer in Arabic at the University of Chicago. His most recent translation is Gamal al-Ghitani's The Book of Epiphanies (AUC Press, 2012).
Reviews
"The Egyptian journalist and magazine editor, Hala El Badry, however, delivers much more in this capacious novel that enfolds multiple stories in an a temporal stream of consciousness that melds the personal and political. The reader who is willing to go with the flow will be transported into a complex web of memories that move backward and forward through five years of political change from about 1975 to 1980."--Bridget Connelly, Washington Independent Review of Books"Riveting"--Midwest Book Review; "Is highly recommended for community library collections. For personal reading lists."By Library Bookwatch, Fiction Shelf, May 2015.
Book Information
ISBN 9789774165887
Author Hala El Badry
Format Paperback
Page Count 488
Imprint The American University in Cairo Press
Publisher The American University in Cairo Press
Weight(grams) 718g
Dimensions(mm) 230mm * 150mm * 28mm