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Chicago by Alaa Al Aswany
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Guides
Sex, money and politics are the driving forces of society in this new novel from bestselling author Alaa al Aswany.A medley of Egyptian and American lives collides on the campus of the University of Illinois Medical Center in a post-9/11 Chicago, and crises of identity abound. Among the players are an a ...Show more
Friendly Fire by Alaa Al Aswany
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The new book from Alaa Al Aswany, author of the international bestsellers The Yacoubian Building and Chicago Friendly Fire is a novella and collection of short stories from Alaa Al Aswany, author of the bestselling The Yacoubian Building. As in that novel, Al Aswany dissects modern Egyptian society and ...Show more
On the State of Egypt: What Caused the Revolution by Alaa Al Aswany
$24.95 AUD
Category: Political
In the novels and short stories of Alaa Al Aswany, characters struggle with class differences, police brutality, poverty, sexual harassment and political corruption; now, in a new collection of essays, Al Aswany considers these same issues that torment modern Egyptian society. He has a great deal to say ...Show more
The Automobile Club of Egypt by Alaa Al Aswany
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From Egypt's most popular novelist - an absorbing, exuberant and powerfully moving story of a family swept up by social unrest in post-World War II Cairo. Abd el-Aziz Gaafar, formerly a well-respected landowner now in the grip of penury, moved his family to Cairo and took on menial work at the Automobil ...Show more
The Republic of False Truths by Alaa Al Aswany
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling author of The Yacoubian Building'Glorious' Observer'Amazing' André Aciman'Masterly' Sunday Times'Blistering' Financial TimesGeneral Alwany is a pious man who loves his family. He also tortures and kills enemies of the state.Under the regime of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt is gripped by cron ...Show more
The Republic of False Truths by Alaa Al Aswany
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'An amazing portrait of fanaticism and cynicism among Egyptian powermongers.' - ANDRE ACIMAN 'Al Aswany is a voice worth hearing from a country of which we know far too little.' - Sunday Times General Alwany is a pious man who loves his family. He also tortures and kills enemies of the state. Under th ...Show more
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
An international bestseller, 'The Yacoubian Building' is a mesmerising and controversial novel that is at once an impasssioned celebration and a ruthless dissection of a society dominated by bribery and corruption. The Yacoubian Building -- once grand, but now dilapidated -- stands on one of Cairo's mai ...Show more
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