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Friendly Fire

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Friendly Fire is a novella and collection of short stories from Alaa Al Aswany, author of the bestselling The Yacoubian Building. As in that novel, Al Aswany dissects modern Egyptian society and reveals with skill and detachment the hypocrisy, violence and abuse of power characteristic of a world in moral crisis. Here, though, the focus has shifted from the broad historical canvas to the minute stitches of pain that hold together an individual, a family, a school classroom, or the relationship between a man and a woman. Can a man so alienated from his society that he regards all its members as no better than microbes wriggling under a microscope survive within it? Can cynical religiosity triumph over human decency? Can a man put the thought of a delicious dish of beans behind him long enough to mourn his father\\\\\\\'s death? Alongside these wry questions, other, less mordant perspectives also have their place: an ageing cabaret dancer bestows the blessing of a vanished world on her lover\\\\\\\'s son; a crippled boy wins subjective victory from objective disaster. In Friendly Fire, readers will find again the vivid, passionate characters of today\\\\\\\'s Cairo, clamouring to be heard.\\\\r\\\\n\\\\r\\\\nFriendly Fire also features an introduction by Alaa Al Aswany giving the history of the novella, \\\\\\\'The Isam Abd el-Ati Papers\\\\\\\', which was banned in Egypt for a decade.

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No. Panggil

F ASW Fri

Penerbit

London. : Fourth Estate., 2009

Deskripsi Fisik

219p

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780007306008

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