The Automobile Club of Egypt
Aswānī, ʻAlāʼ, 1957-2016
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Inside the walls of the Automobile Club of Egypt two very different worlds collide - Cairo's European elite and the Egyptian staff who wait on them. The servants, a squabbling, humorous and deeply human group, live in a perpetual state of fear under the tyrannical rule of Alku. When Abd el-Aziz Gaafar becomes the target of Alku's cruelty and his pride gets the better of him, a devastating act sends ripples through his family. Soon, they too are drawn into the turbulent politics of the club, as servants and masters are subsumed by Egypt's social upheaval. Egyptians both inside and outside the club are about to face a stark choice: to live safely without dignity, or fight for their rights and risk everything.
Main title:
The Automobile Club of Egypt / Alaa Al Aswany ; translated from the Arabic by Russell Harris.
Author:
Aswānī, ʻAlāʼ, 1957-, authorHarris, Russell, translator
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Canongate, 2016.
Collation:
475 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Radio tie-in.This translation originally published: United States: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
ISBN:
9780857862198 (hbk)
Dewey class:
892.7'37
Language:
EnglishArabic
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BRN:
123200
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