Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother's phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom window, watching the three state-sanctioned TV stations with the volume off, daydreaming about other lives. Underlying this claustrophobic routine is mystery and loss. Relatives mutter darkly about the newly-appointed President Mubarak. Everyone talks with melancholy about the past. People disappear overnight. Her own father has left, too - why, or to where, no one will say
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Detaljer om materialet
Type
Bog
Sprog
engelsk
Klassemærke
83
ISBN
9780770437299
Udgave
1. edition
Omfang
181 sider
Forlag
Tim Duggan Books
Målgruppe
voksenmaterialer