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Friendly Fire by Alaa Al Aswany
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The new book from Alaa Al Aswany, author of the international bestseller 'The Yacoubian Building' and 'Chicago'. '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 soc ...Show more
The Automobile Club of Egypt by Alaa Al Aswany
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Releases
From Egypt's most popular novelist - an absorbing, exuberant and powerfully moving story of a family swept up by social unrest in post-World War II Cairo. Abd el-Aziz Gaafar, formerly a well-respected landowner now in the grip of penury, moved his family to Cairo and took on menial work at the Automobil ...Show more
The Republic of False Truths by Alaa Al Aswany
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Releases | Reading Level: very good
'An amazing portrait of fanaticism and cynicism among Egyptian powermongers.' - ANDRE ACIMAN 'Al Aswany is a voice worth hearing from a country of which we know far too little.' - Sunday Times General Alwany is a pious man who loves his family. He also tortures and kills enemies of the state. Under th ...Show more
The Yacoubian Building (US PB) by Alaa Al Aswany
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
The lives of the inhabitants of an apartment building in downtown Cairo intertwine as the destinies of a fading aristocrat, voluptuous siren, devout doorman, secretly-gay editor, roof-squatting tailor, and corrupt politician come together.
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