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Poor
- A Nubian Novel
Af: Idris Ali
Engelsk Paperback
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Poor

- A Nubian Novel
Af: Idris Ali
Engelsk Paperback

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“This is your last day. Be strong. Don’t hesitate. Cut and run. An exit with no return.”
Idris Ali’s confessional novel opens with these words, spoken on an unbearably hot August afternoon in downtown Cairo, where the Nubian narrator has just decided, once and for all, to end his life. Delirious and thirsty, he wanders around venting his resentments large and small, his sexual frustrations, and his sense of powerlessness in the face of unremitting injustice. He seeks to expunge his failed life in the Nile: the river that had been the life blood of his country for millennia, and that—with Egypt’s new dam—now drowns Nubia, flinging her dispossessed sons north and south into exile. Many years ago, the narrator was one of those sons, fleeing flood and famine only to arrive in Cairo, penniless and shoeless, in time to see it go up in flames, the old regime overthrown by “the men in tanks.”
Poor is the story of a life of hardship, adversity, and emotional starvation. It is also the story of opportunities squandered and hopes traded away for nothing—of a life lived, at times, all too poorly.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
220
ISBN-13:
9789774166273
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
9774166272
Udg. Dato:
10 dec 2013
Længde:
13mm
Bredde:
197mm
Højde:
122mm
Forlag:
The American University in Cairo Press
Oplagsdato:
10 dec 2013
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