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Author:

Naga, Noor, author.

Title:

If an Egyptian cannot speak English : a novel / Noor Naga.

Publisher:

Graywolf Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

186 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Egyptian American women--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Cairo (Egypt)--Fiction.
Egyptians--Fiction.
Language teachers--Fiction.
Photographers--Fiction.
Addicts--Fiction.
Romance fiction.

Summary:

In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a caf̌ in Cairo. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living in a rooftop shack. She is a nostalgic daughter of immigrants "returning" to a country she's never been to before, teaching English and living in a light-filled flat with balconies on all sides. They fall in love and he moves in. But soon their desire--for one another, for the selves they want to become through the other--takes a violent turn that neither of them expected.

ISBN:

164445081X
9781644450819

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1294394503

Locations:

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