Gamal Al-Ghitani

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A Memoir

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One of Egypt's greatest contemporary writers reflects on life and love This haunting memoir, written ten years before Ghitani's death, weaves together a series of vignettes in a style that mimics the uneven, discontinuous nature of memory itself. These fragments are summoned from across the span of a singular lifetime. We read of his childhood adventures, his erotic awakenings, his time as a political prisoner, and his reports from the battlefront in Iraq and the corridors of power in Syria. Vivid passages capture fleeting glances of strangers through car windows, flavors and scents of delicacies savored, dreams and sorrows of neighbors in t… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Uthman, Nader K. (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-61797-975-0
EAN: 9781617979750
Produktnummer: 33789553
Verlag: The American University in Cairo Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 622 KB

Über den Autor

Gamal al-Ghitani (1945-2015) is one of Egypt's greatest writers. He was born in 1945 and educated as a tapestry-maker in rural Cairo. He wrote his first work when he was sixteen and became a war reporter at the age of twenty-three. He has written thirteen novels and six collections of short stories, including his best known work, Zayni Barakat (AUC Press, 2004) and The Zafarani Files (AUC Press, 2009). Ghitani's many honors include the Egyptian State Prize for the Novel, the French Chevalier de l'Order des Arts et des Lettres, the Egyptian State Prize for Literature, and Egypt's Nile Award in Literature.