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The Law of Inheritance

Name: The Law of Inheritance
Author: Yasser Abdellatif

Auteur: Yasser Abdellatif

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Yasser Abdellatif

Engels
Hardcover
9780857425454
15 april 2018
112 pagina's

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This lyrical novel tells the story of a young man living in Egypt in the 1990s, a time of great turmoil. We see student riots at Cairo University, radical politics, and the first steps towards the making of a writer. But his story is not told in isolation: through his experiences and memories Yasser Abdellatif also unfolds the experiences of his Nubian family through the epochal changes the country underwent in the twentieth-century. The symphonic four-part text presents us with narratives of Egyptian identity, a constant knitting and unraveling that moves us back and forth through time, as the reader slides and leaps across the shifting tectonic plates of Abdellatif's vignettes, his immaculately limpid prose poetry bringing forth the same questions. Nobody quite belongs in Cairo, it seems, but at the same time none of them belongs anywhere else: a relative emigrates from his Nubian village to the Cairo of the 1930s, where Italian fascists chase him through the streets and into a Maltese exile, only for him to return and make his way back South to the homeland he left. Another relative falls into religious esotericism and later madness, spinning away from Cairo and back to the wasteland of a village relocated after it had been flooded by the Aswan Dam. Meanwhile, in the 1990s, students fight security forces and binge on pills amid the dysfunctional remnants of a centralized state whose gravitational pull uprooted their parents and offered the possibility of assimilation into a national identity. Through the clear sky of Abdellatif's novel his characters, the spaces they call home, their way-stations, and even the nation that contains them all are a murmuration of starlings, held together and apart forever.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 15 april 2018
Aantal pagina's: 112
Illustraties: Nee

Betrokkenen

Hoofdauteur: Yasser Abdellatif
Hoofduitgeverij: Seagull Books London Ltd

Vertaling

Eerste Vertaler: Robin Moger

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Editie: 2nd ed.
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 127 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 203 mm
Verpakking lengte: 203 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 88 g

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EAN: 9780857425454

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Taal: Engels
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