6%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Private Pleasures: An Egyptian Novel
Hamdy El-Gazzar
€ 19.99
€ 18.72
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Private Pleasures: An Egyptian Novel
Paperback. Translator(s): Davies, Humphrey. Num Pages: 215 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 226 x 12. Weight in Grams: 334.
Private Pleasures describes the three-day sex, drink, and drug binge of a thirty-something newsreader in the back streets and crumbling apartments of his native Giza, that pullulating mass of humanity that, like an ugly sister, sits opposite Cairo on the Nile's west bank. Pursued by an unshakable sense of impending doom that is only partly attributable to fear of retribution at the hands of a sadistic police officer with whose wife he is conducting a frenzied affair, the narrator observes, with fascinated horror, his own stumbling progress through a world of menace and wonder inhabited by philosophical prostitutes, nightmarish butchers, ... Read more
Private Pleasures describes the three-day sex, drink, and drug binge of a thirty-something newsreader in the back streets and crumbling apartments of his native Giza, that pullulating mass of humanity that, like an ugly sister, sits opposite Cairo on the Nile's west bank. Pursued by an unshakable sense of impending doom that is only partly attributable to fear of retribution at the hands of a sadistic police officer with whose wife he is conducting a frenzied affair, the narrator observes, with fascinated horror, his own stumbling progress through a world of menace and wonder inhabited by philosophical prostitutes, nightmarish butchers, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Cairo, Egypt
ISBN
9789774166013
SKU
V9789774166013
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Hamdy El-Gazzar
Hamdy el-Gazzar was born in 1970 in Giza and graduated in philosophy from Cairo University. His first novel, Black Magic (AUC Press 2007), received the 2006 Sawiris Foundation Prize in Egyptian Literature. Humphrey Davies is the translator of Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz (AUC Press, 2011) and other works of Arabic literature. He has twice received the ... Read more
Reviews for Private Pleasures: An Egyptian Novel