1970  The Last Days (häftad)
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
312
Utgivningsdatum
2023-11-05
Förlag
Seagull Books London Ltd
Översättare
Eleanor Ellis
Illustrationer
10 halftones
Dimensioner
231 x 155 x 25 mm
Vikt
518 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781803092485

1970 The Last Days

Inbunden,  Engelska, 2023-11-05
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A riveting novel that is both an indictment and an elegy, a second-person memoir of Nassers final months in the voice of his former prisoner. In 1959, at the age of twenty-two, Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim was imprisoned by Gamal Abdel Nassers regime. Over the following five years in prison in Egypts Western Desert, Ibrahim kept diaries that he smuggled out on cigarette papers. In this novel, Ibrahim takes up Nasser as a fictional character tied tightly to real events, offering a window into his daily life in his final years. Ibrahim follows Nasser during the War of Attrition and the aftermath of the 1967 war with Israel and looks back on the events of the previous decades. He also chronicles Nasser at his most vulnerable, detailing a more private set of Nassers setbacks and defeats: the daily routines of a diabetic suffering from heart trouble in the months before his death. Political events as well as social and economic transformations are narrated through newspaper clippings and archival fragments, painting a portrait of the decline of a man who was once larger than life.
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Sonallah Ibrahim is one of Egypts most-loved contemporary novelists. He spent five years in political prison from 1959 to 1964. His works available in English include The Committee, That Smell and Notes from Prison, Zaat, Stealth, and Beirut, Beirut, Ice, and The Turban and the Hat, the last two also published by Seagull.