Khairy Shalaby

The Hashish Waiter

A Modern Arabic Novel

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Tucked away in a rundown quarter, just out of sight of fashionable downtown Cairo, a group of intellectuals gather regularly to smoke hashish in Hakeem's den. The den is the center of their lives, both a refuge and a stimulus, and at the center of the den is the remarkable man who keeps their hashish bowls topped up-Rowdy Salih.

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-977-416-738-6
EAN: 9789774167386
Produktnummer: 18298836
Verlag: The American University in Cairo Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Masse: H22.6 cm x B14.1 cm x D2.0 cm 447 g
Gewicht: 447

Über den Autor

Khairy Shalaby (1938-2011) was born in Kafr al-Shaykh in Egypt's Nile Delta. He wrote seventy books, including novels, short stories, historical tales, and critical studies. His novel The Lodging House was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2003, and was published in English translation by the AUC Press in 2006.Adam Talib is assistant professor in the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations at the American University in Cairo, and is the translator of Mekkawi Said's Cairo Swan Song (AUC Press, 2009).