Ahdaf Soueif

Broschiertes Buch

Cairo

Memoir of a City Transformed

Beschreibung

The story of the revolution and a personal journey into the city of Ahdaf Soueif's childhood

Autor

Ahdaf Soueif was born in Cairo. She is the author of Aisha, Sandpiper, In the Eye of the Sun and the bestselling novel The Map of Love, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1999. Her collection of cultural and political essays, Mezzaterra, was published in 2004, as was her translation of I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti. She has been awarded the Blue Metropolis Literary Prize (in Montreal) and the Constantin Cavafis Award (in Cairo and Athens), and is also the founder of the Palestine Festival of Literature, PalFest, for which she was awarded the Hay Medal for Festivals in 2017. Ahdaf Soueif is also a journalist and her work is syndicated throughout the world. For the last five years she has been a key political commentator on Egypt and Palestine, and throughout the 2011 uprisings in Cairo Adhaf Soueif reported front the ground for the Guardian, and appeared on television and radio. She lives in London and Cairo.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Paperbacks / Bloomsbury Trade
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 156542
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 220g
• ISBN-13: 9781408830505
• ISBN-10: 1408830507
• Artikelnr.: 36920849

Rezensionen

Captures the intoxicating romance of the weeks when anything seemed possible. Souief writes with verve and passion, offering the authentic voice of the liberal Egyptian who risked everything because she wanted her country to have freedom and democracy Daily Telegraph