Cigarette number seven / Donia Kamal ; translated by Nariman Youssef.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kamāl, Dunyā, author.

Contributor:

Youssef, Nariman, translator.

Series:

Hoopoe Fiction Ser.

Standardized Title:

Sījārah sābiʻah. English

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic fiction.

Egypt--History--Protests, 2011-2013--Fiction.

Egypt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 191 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Hoopoe, an imprint of AUC Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English; translated from the original Arabic.

Summary:

As a child, Nadia was left her with her grandparents in Egypt, while her mother sought work in the Gulf. Decades later, she looks back on her fragmented childhood from an uncertain present: it is 2011 and the streets have erupted in an unexpected revolution. Her activist father, the sole anchor in her life, encourages her to be a part of the protests and so Nadia joins the sit-in at Tahrir Square. Donia Kamal's succinct, candid prose draw us into Nadia's world: from the private to the public; from the men she has loved and lost, to her participation in the momentous events of the Egyptian revolution. Stunning in its simplicity, Cigarette Number Seven is a deeply intimate novel about family and relationships in turbulent times.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-61797-842-6

1-61797-843-4

OCLC:

1027155032