Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt

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Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt

A young Egyptian woman recounts her personal and political coming of age in this brilliant debut novel.

Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house.Â Her days pass quietly: listening to a motherâ€™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 claustrophobicÂ routine is mystery and loss.Â Relatives mutter darkly about the newly-appointed President Mubarak. Everyone talks with melancholy about the past. People disappear overnight. Her own father has left, tooâ€”why, or to where, no one will say.Â

We meet her across three decades, from youth to adulthood: As a six-year old absorbing the world around her, filled with questions she canâ€™t ask; as a college student and aspiring filmmaker pre-occupied with love, language, and the repression that surrounds her; and then later, in the turbulent aftermath of Mubarakâ€™s overthrow, as a writer exploring her own past. Reunited with her father, she wonders about the silences that have marked and shaped her life.

At once a mapping of a city in transformation and a story about the shifting realities and fates of a single Egyptian family,Â Yasmine El Rashidiâ€™s Chronicle of a Last SummerÂ traces the fine line between survival and complicity, exploring the conscience of a generation raised in silence.
Country USA
Brand Tim Duggan Books
Manufacturer Tim Duggan Books
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780770437299
ReleaseDate 2016-06-28
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780770437299

Country	USA
Brand	Tim Duggan Books
Manufacturer	Tim Duggan Books
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780770437299
ReleaseDate	2016-06-28
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780770437299

Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt

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