Chronicle of a last summer : a novel of Egypt / Yasmine El Rashidi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

El Rashidi, Yasmine, 1977- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mubārak, Muḥammad Ḥusnī, 1928-2020.

Young women--Egypt--Fiction.

Young women.

Families--Egypt--Fiction.

Families.

History.

Politics and government.

Egypt--Politics and government--1981---Fiction.

Egypt.

Mubārak, Muḥammad Ḥusnī, 1928-2020--Fiction.

Mubārak, Muḥammad Ḥusnī.

Egypt--History--Protests, 2011---Fiction.

Genre:

Political fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Historical fiction.

Fiction.

History.

Physical Description:

181 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Tim Duggan Books, [2016]

Summary:

"A young Egyptian woman chronicles her personal and political coming of age in this debut novel. Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother's phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom window, watching the three state-sanctioned TV stations with the volume off, daydreaming about other lives. Underlying this claustrophobic routine is mystery and loss. Relatives mutter darkly about the newly-appointed President Mubarak. Everyone talks with melancholy about the past. People disappear overnight. Her own father has left, too--why, or to where, no one will say. We meet her across three decades, from youth to adulthood: As a six-year old absorbing the world around her, filled with questions she can't ask; as a college student and aspiring filmmaker pre-occupied with love, language, and the repression that surrounds her; and then later, in the turbulent aftermath of Mubarak's overthrow, as a writer exploring her own past. Reunited with her father, she wonders about the silences that have marked and shaped her life. At once a mapping of a city in transformation and a story about the shifting realities and fates of a single Egyptian family, Yasmine El Rashidi's Chronicle of a Last Summer traces the fine line between survival and complicity, exploring the conscience of a generation raised in silence"-- Provided by publisher.

"A coming-of-age story that follows a Cairo native from her girlhood during Mubarak's regime to her adulthood and the radical change brought by the revolution that toppled Mubarak"-- Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Online version: El Rashidi, Yasmine, 1977- Chronicle of a last summer

ISBN:

9780770437299

077043729X

9780770437312

0770437311

OCLC:

923548100

Publisher Number:

40026239469

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