A powerful and poetic masterpiece where ordinary people's dreams play out in a city plagued by government exploitation and crime As his wife delivers their child in the next room, a man wakes from the nightmare of a teenage girl's body lying beneath his bed. In this twilight before birth, Fadel'
A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me: A Novel (Hoopoe Fiction): Novel
โ Scribed by Youssef Fadel
- Publisher
- Hoopoe; The American University in Cairo Press
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 221 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Egypt;Cairo
- ISBN
- 1617979368
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โฆ Synopsis
In 1980s Casablanca, Farah arrives from her small town life with big dreams: she wants to sing. She meets Outhman, but he longs to leave the city, to seek his fortune elsewhere. They fall in love, but trouble brews on the horizon. A bitter struggle rages over construction of the monumental Hassan II Mosque-it will destroy their neighborhood but the government insist this is a necessary sacrifice for the good of Morocco. The two young lovers find themselves caught up in events beyond their control, and in a world that seems to work against their happiness at every turn. A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me is a narrative tour de force: one of power plays and petty jealousies, deceit and corruption, written with masterful attention to detail. "
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