Khairy Shalaby

Lodging House

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A young man's dreams for a better future as a student in the Teachers' Institute are shattered after he assaults one of his instructors for discriminating against him. From then on, he begins his descent into the underworld. Penniless, he seeks refuge in Wikalat 'Atiya, a historic but now completely run-down caravanserai that has become the home of the town's marginal and underprivileged characters.This award-winning novel takes on epic dimensions as the narrator escorts us on a journey to this underworld, portraying as he sinks further into its intricate relationships the many characters that inhabit it.Through a labyrinth of tales, reminisc… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-61797-179-2
EAN: 9781617971792
Produktnummer: 22570208
Verlag: I.B.Tauris
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 440 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'827 KB

Über den Autor

KHAIRY SHALABY, born in Kafr al-Shaykh in Egypt's Nile Delta in 1938, has written seventy books, including novels, short stories, historical tales, and critical studies. The Lodging House was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2003. He died on 9 September 2011.FAROUK ABDEL WAHAB, was Ibn Rushd Professorial Lecturer in Arabic at the University of Chicago. He was the translator of many works of Arabic fiction, including Gamal al-Ghitani's The Book of Epiphanies (AUC Press, 2012). He won the 2007 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for his translation of The Lodging House. He died in 2013.