TY  - BOOK
AU  - El-Toukhy,Nael
AU  - Moger,Robin
TI  - Women of Karantina : : a novel 
T2  - Modern Arabic literature
SN  - 9789774166624
U1  - 813.6 22
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cairo, Egypt, New York : 
PB  - The American University in Cairo Press, 
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Fugitives from justice
N1  - designed by Adam el Sehemy
N2  - 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
ER  -