Forfatter fødeår: 1957
In this deeply considered and at times provocative short work, Alaa Al Aswany tells us that to understand the syndrome of dictatorship we must first consider the circumstances... Læs mere
From the bestselling author of The Yacoubian Building comes a novel bursting at the seams with Egyptian life
This exceptional Egyptian novel – as mesmerising as it is controversial – caused an unprecedented stir when it was first published in Arabic.
'Al Aswany is a voice worth hearing from a country of which we know far too little.' - Sunday Times