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24%OFFAlaa Al Aswany - Friendly fire - 9780007314515 - V9780007314515
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Friendly fire

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Description for Friendly fire Paperback. The new book from Alaa Al Aswany, author of the international bestseller 'The Yacoubian Building' and 'Chicago'. Translator(s): Davies, Humphrey. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 121 x 16. Weight in Grams: 174.

The new book from Alaa Al Aswany, author of the international bestseller ‘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, with skill and detachment, reveals the hypocrisy, violence and abuse of power characteristic of a world in moral crisis. Here, though, the focus has shifted from the broad historical canvas to the minute stitches of pain that hold together an individual, ... Read more

‘Friendly Fire’ also features an introduction by Alaa Al Aswany giving the history of the novella, ‘The Isam Abd el-Ati Papers’, which was banned in Egypt for a decade.

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Product Details

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
300
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007314515
SKU
V9780007314515
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About Alaa Al Aswany
Alaa al Aswany was born in 1957. He is a dentist by profession, and for many years practised in the Yacoubian Building, which was to form the setting for his bestselling novel of the same name. He has written prolifically for Egyptian newspapers on politics, literature and social issues and his second novel, ‘Chicago’, was published by Fourth Estate in ... Read more

Reviews for Friendly fire
'An acute observer … Al Aswany continues to be a voice worth hearing from a country of which we know far too little' Sunday Times 'Aswany's anger with his country's political and social unfairness clearly has a foundation in a personal love for it … affecting, human and ... Read more

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