
Status: Emo
An Egyptian Novel
Eslam Mosbah(Author)
The American University in Cairo Press
Published on 12. May 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-977-416-582-5 (ISBN)
Description
You are bored, bored, bored, stuck in a half-job, berated by your parents and unsure whether you should marry your cousin. You want to change. A chance encounter on Facebook leads you to Emmie and her underground world of strange fashion, drinking, dancing, sex, and drugs. You become an Emo and discover philosophical atheism and practical Satanism.
Although Emmie's rules include no sex and no love, you become addicted to her and the belief that she will be the one to change you. You fall in love. Your inability to disobey her leads you to embrace her creed. The efforts of your family to restore you to the fold fail, and your heroism leads her to succumb to you.
One final act of 'degeneracy' too far leads you into the arms of the state's torturers and to reaffirm society's values, if with a greater sense of freedom and adventure.
Status: Emo is a romp through the mind of the young Egypt. Written in 2010, it predicts revolt and hints at culture wars to come.
Although Emmie's rules include no sex and no love, you become addicted to her and the belief that she will be the one to change you. You fall in love. Your inability to disobey her leads you to embrace her creed. The efforts of your family to restore you to the fold fail, and your heroism leads her to succumb to you.
One final act of 'degeneracy' too far leads you into the arms of the state's torturers and to reaffirm society's values, if with a greater sense of freedom and adventure.
Status: Emo is a romp through the mind of the young Egypt. Written in 2010, it predicts revolt and hints at culture wars to come.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cairo
Egypt
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
191 gr
ISBN-13
978-977-416-582-5 (9789774165825)
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Eslam Mosbah was born in Egypt's Nile Delta in 1984. He is the author of two novels, and has received the Egyptian Prize for Science Fiction. He works as a creative producer on documentary films and as a freelance journalist for several online magazines.
Raphael Cohen is the translator of So You May See by Mona Prince (AUC Press, 2011).
Raphael Cohen is the translator of So You May See by Mona Prince (AUC Press, 2011).