Chronicle of a last summer : a novel of Egypt / Yasmine El Rashidi.
"A young Egyptian woman chronicles her personal and political coming of age in this debut novel. Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother's phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom window, watching the three state-sanctioned TV stations with the volume off, daydreaming about other lives. Underlying this claustrophobic routine is mystery and loss. Relatives mutter darkly about the newly-appointed President Mubarak. Everyone talks with melancholy about the past. People disappear overnight. Her own father has left, too--why, or to where, no one will say. We meet her across three decades, from youth to adulthood: As a six-year old absorbing the world around her, filled with questions she can't ask; as a college student and aspiring filmmaker pre-occupied with love, language, and the repression that surrounds her; and then later, in the turbulent aftermath of Mubarak's overthrow, as a writer exploring her own past. Reunited with her father, she wonders about the silences that have marked and shaped her life. At once a mapping of a city in transformation and a story about the shifting realities and fates of a single Egyptian family, Yasmine El Rashidi's Chronicle of a Last Summer traces the fine line between survival and complicity, exploring the conscience of a generation raised in silence."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780770437299
- Physical Description: 181 pages ; 20 cm
- Publisher: New York : Tim Duggan Books, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016.
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Subject: | Mubārak, Muḥammad Ḥusnī, 1928- > Fiction. Young women > Egypt > Fiction. Families > Egypt > Fiction. Egypt > Politics and government > 1981- > Fiction. Egypt > History > Protests, 2011- > Fiction. |
Genre: | Political fiction. Domestic fiction. Bildungsromans. Historical fiction. |
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