Nile Sparrows
Published on 28. February 2004
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-977-424-828-3 (ISBN)
Description
Set in the Nile-side neighborhood of Warraq, Aslan's novel chronicles the daily rhythm of the life of rural migrants to Cairo and their complex webs of familial and neighborly relations over half a century. In an elliptical narrative, Aslan limns a series of vignettes that mimic the workings of memory, moving backward and forward in time.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cairo
Egypt
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 124 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
ISBN-13
978-977-424-828-3 (9789774248283)
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Ibrahim Asian was born in Tanta in 1937 and published his first collection of short stories, Buhayrat al-misa' ('Evening Lake'), in 1971. His first novel Malek al-hazin ('The Heron,' 1983) was adapted into the successful film Kit Kat. Asian is culture editor in the Cairo bureau of the London-based daily newspaper al-Hayat. Mona El-Ghobashy is finishing a doctoral dissertation on contemporary Egyptian politics at Columbia University.