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Traces eBook

A Memoir

de Gamal Al-Ghitani
idioma: inglês
Editor: THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO PRESS, outubro de 2020 ‧
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One of Egypt''s greatest contemporary writers reflects on life and love

This haunting memoir, written ten years before Ghitani’s death, weaves together a series of vignettes in a style that mimics the uneven, discontinuous nature of memory itself. These fragments are summoned from across the span of a singular lifetime. We read of his childhood adventures, his erotic awakenings, his time as a political prisoner, and his reports from the battlefront in Iraq and the corridors of power in Syria. Vivid passages capture fleeting glances of strangers through car windows, flavors and scents of delicacies savored, dreams and sorrows of neighbors in the apartment blocks of Cairo before Nasser, as well as chance conversations at points of transit, in cafés, on elegant streets, and with unnamed paramours. These memories, and Ghitani’s musings on memory’s own finitude and mutability, make Traces both a memoir and a meditation on memory itself, in all its inscrutable workings and inevitable betrayals.

Traces

A Memoir

de Gamal Al-Ghitani

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ISBN: 9781617979767
Editor: THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO PRESS
Data de Lançamento: outubro de 2020
Idioma: Inglês
Tipo de produto: eBook
Formato e Compatibilidade: PDF para ADE
Classificação Temática: eBooks em Inglês > Guias Turísticos e Mapas > África
eBooks em Inglês > Outros
EAN: 9781617979767