Women of Karantina :
El-Toukhy, Nael.
Women of Karantina : a novel / Nael El-Toukhy ; Translated by Robin Moger. - Cairo, Egypt ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2014. - 300 p. ; 23 cm. - Modern Arabic literature .
designed by Adam el Sehemy.
Back in the dog days of the early twenty-first century a pair of lovebirds fleeing a murder charge in Cairo pull in to Alexandria's main train station. Fugitives, friendless, their young lives blighted at the root, Ali and Injy set about rebuilding, and from the coastal city's arid soil forge a legend, a kingdom of crime, a revolution: Karantina.Through three generations of Grand Guignol insanity, Nael Eltoukhy's sly psychopomp of a narrator is our guide not only to the teeming cast of pimps, dealers, psychotics, and half-wits and the increasingly baroque chronicles of their exploits, but also.
9789774166624
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Fugitives from justice--Fiction.
813.6 / TNW
Women of Karantina : a novel / Nael El-Toukhy ; Translated by Robin Moger. - Cairo, Egypt ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2014. - 300 p. ; 23 cm. - Modern Arabic literature .
designed by Adam el Sehemy.
Back in the dog days of the early twenty-first century a pair of lovebirds fleeing a murder charge in Cairo pull in to Alexandria's main train station. Fugitives, friendless, their young lives blighted at the root, Ali and Injy set about rebuilding, and from the coastal city's arid soil forge a legend, a kingdom of crime, a revolution: Karantina.Through three generations of Grand Guignol insanity, Nael Eltoukhy's sly psychopomp of a narrator is our guide not only to the teeming cast of pimps, dealers, psychotics, and half-wits and the increasingly baroque chronicles of their exploits, but also.
9789774166624
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Fugitives from justice--Fiction.
813.6 / TNW