Chronicle of a Last Summer
A Novel of Egypt
New York : Tim Duggan Books, [2016]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 181 pages ; 20 cm
"A young Egyptian woman chronicles her personal and political coming of age in this debut novel. Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother's phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom window, watching the three state-sanctioned TV stations with the volume off, daydreaming about other lives. Underlying this claustrophobic routine is mystery and loss. Relatives mutter darkly about the newly-appointed President Mubarak. Everyone talks with melancholy about the past. People disappear overnight. Her own father has left, too--why, or to where, no one will say. We meet her across three decades, from youth to adulthood: As a six-year old absorbing the world around her, filled with questions she can't ask; as a college student and aspiring filmmaker pre-occupied with love, language, and the repression that surrounds her; and then later, in the turbulent aftermath of Mubarak's overthrow, as a writer exploring her own past. Reunited with her father, she wonders about the silences that have marked and shaped her life. At once a mapping of a city in transformation and a story about the shifting realities and fates of a single Egyptian family, Yasmine El Rashidi's Chronicle of a Last Summer traces the fine line between survival and complicity, exploring the conscience of a generation raised in silence"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
Mubrak, Muammad usn, 1928- -- Fiction.
Young women -- Egypt -- Fiction.
Families -- Egypt -- Fiction.
Egypt -- Politics and government -- 1981-2011 -- Fiction.
Egypt -- History -- Protests, 2011-2013 -- Fiction.
Mubrak, Muammad usn, 1928- -- Fiction.
Young women -- Egypt -- Fiction.
Families -- Egypt -- Fiction.
Egypt -- Politics and government -- 1981-2011 -- Fiction.
Egypt -- History -- Protests, 2011-2013 -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780770437299 (hardcover)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F El Rashidi | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
F El Rashidi | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
F El Rashidi | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
F El Rashidi | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |