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Temple Bar: An Egyptian Novel
Bahaa Abdelmegid
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Description for Temple Bar: An Egyptian Novel
Paperback. A journey of self-discovery between Cairo and Dublin Translator(s): Jonathan, Wright. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
Dublin is alien territory for young and impoverished Egyptian academic Mutazz, who is preparing a PhD on Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Mutazz has enough problems with his family's high expectations and the unrequited, idealized love that he left behind in Cairo. Now he has to deal with cantankerous landlords, the inscrutable local women, the Irish judiciary, haunted seminaries, and cold winter nights selling flowers on the banks of the Liffey to make ends meet. His own personal demons travel with him, especially the clash between his sexual desires and his reluctance to become emotionally entangled with anyone other than his ... Read more
Dublin is alien territory for young and impoverished Egyptian academic Mutazz, who is preparing a PhD on Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Mutazz has enough problems with his family's high expectations and the unrequited, idealized love that he left behind in Cairo. Now he has to deal with cantankerous landlords, the inscrutable local women, the Irish judiciary, haunted seminaries, and cold winter nights selling flowers on the banks of the Liffey to make ends meet. His own personal demons travel with him, especially the clash between his sexual desires and his reluctance to become emotionally entangled with anyone other than his ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Cairo, Egypt
ISBN
9789774166600
SKU
V9789774166600
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About Bahaa Abdelmegid
Bahaa Abdelmegid, with a Ph.D. in English literature from Ain Shams University, is a visiting professor at Oxford University. He is the author of two collections of short stories and four novels, including Saint Theresa and Sleeping with Strangers (AUC Press, 2010). Jonathan Wright is the translator of a number of Arabic novels including Rasha Al Ameer's Judgment ... Read more
Reviews for Temple Bar: An Egyptian Novel
"The narrative of Temple Bar is a digressive stream of consciousness replete with encounters, incidents, memories, and literary quotations." Susannah Tarbush, Banipal 52;