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Tyska, 2015122 kr
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»Willkommen in Kairo« ist eine einzigartige Einladung, das Land am Nil aus der Sicht ägyptischer Erfolgsautorinnen und -autoren zu entdecken. Die Texte, sorgfältig ausgewählt aus der Reihe zeitgenössischer arabischer Literatur im Lenos Verlag, bestechen durch ihre erzählerische Brillanz und ihre authentische Perspektive auf die ägyptische Gesellschaft. Sie handeln vom Alltag, benennen kompromisslos Tabus, führen soziale Ungerechtigkeiten vor Augen oder stellen mit Selbstironie und Witz kulturelle Normen in Frage. So wettert ein Taxifahrer über die Torturen bei der Führerscheinerneuerung - ein kafkaesker Albtraum voller kostspieliger Amtsbesuche. Eine arme Mutter weiss sich gegen den Hunger zu helfen, indem sie mit einem Geheimpolizisten eine Abmachung trifft. Lustvoll zu lesen ist auch von den Sehnsüchten und Sorgen junger Frauen auf Männersuche und vom geheimen Nachtleben der Schwulen in einer Bar der Kairoer Innenstadt. Die Anthologie versammelt herausragende literarische Zeugnisse, die die ägyptische Gesellschaft unter die Lupe nehmen und zugleich Abbild ihres kulturellen Reichtums sind.
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
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Set in the author’s own Nile-side neighborhood of Warraq, Aslan’s second novel, the first to be translated and published in English, chronicles the daily rhythm of life of rural migrants to Cairo and their complex webs of familial and neighborly relations over half a century. It opens with the mysterious disappearance of the tiny grandmother, Hanem, who is over 100 years old and is last seen by her daughter-in-law Dalal. Dalal does not have the heart to tell Hanem that her grown children Nargis and Abdel Reheem have both been dead for some time. Her grandson Mr. Abdalla, who has children of his own and not a few flecks of gray in his hair, reluctantly sets out for their home village to search for her, embarking on a bittersweet odyssey into his family’s past and a confrontation with his own aging.In an elliptical narrative, Aslan limns a series of vignettes that mimic the workings of memory, moving backward and forward in time and held together by a series of recurrent figures and images. There is Abdalla’s father, the tragic al-Bahey Uthman; his quirky and earthy uncle Abdel Reheem; and his sweet mother, Nargis, who dies with her simplest desires unfulfilled. Aslan’s moving portrait of the quotidian dramas that constitute the lives of ordinary Egyptians is untainted by populist pretensions or belittling romanticism, and full of the humor and heartbreaking pathos that have become trademarks of the author’s style.
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
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One long winter night and the Cairo neighborhood of Kit Kat stands at a crossroads. Poised like herons fishing on the banks of the Nile, the characters of this novel wait and watch as opportunities swim by past their reach. Some gaze on as their local café is stolen before their eyes. One studies how the nouveaux riches of the Open Door Policy make their money, while others try their own hand at swindle. Still others read the empty rhetoric of state-run newspapers and wonder what it all means. It is long past midnight; some walk, some sit and smoke, and all are trading stories. A young artist waits by himself for a girl, a drink, or a revolution. All are waiting for what the next day might bring.Set on the eve of the January 1977 “bread riots” against IMF austerity programs and privatization that nearly brought down President Anwar Sadat, The Heron catches Egypt in the mid-stream of its modern history. Since it first appeared in 1984, Ibrahim Aslan’s The Heron has been a classic of modern Arabic literature. It has been translated into a number of European languages and adapted as the successful film Kit Kat.