Drumbeat by El-Bisatie, Mohamed

Drumbeat (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789774167331)

Vendor: Mohamed El-Bisatie
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Format: Paperback
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Drumbeat by El-Bisatie, Mohamed

Drumbeat

$14.95
Drumbeat by El-Bisatie, Mohamed

Drumbeat

$14.95
Format: Paperback
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In a fictional Gulf country, with its gleaming glass towers and imported greenery, the routine of day-to-day life is suddenly interrupted when the national football team qualifies for the World Cup. The Emir issues an edict ordering all native Emiratis to travel to France to support the team, leaving the country to the care of its imported labor. How do they handle such newly found freedom? As though steered by a perverse blend between Dante and Scheherazade, we descend layer by layer beneath the fa軋de of modernity: from the colorful multilingual throngs rejoicing for the Emirati team to the hierarchies that underpin them, from the luxurious gardens and swimming pools into the darker secrets of the bedroom, from the rigid and inhibiting strictures of the present to a remote age of innocence. Three narratives interweave to form a tight and thought-provoking examination of the psychology of control. Drumbeat received the Sawiris Foundation Award for Egyptian Literature.

Author: Mohamed El-Bisatie
ISBN-10: 9774167333
ISBN-13: 9789774167331
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Language: English
Published: 12/30/2015
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.70h x 4.70w x 0.40d
By Mohamed El-Bisatie
By Mohamed El-Bisatie
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Mohamed El-Bisatie (1937-2012) was the author of a number of novels and short story collections, including A Last Glass of Tea (AUC Press, 1994), Houses behind the Trees (AUC Press, 1997), Clamor of the Lake (AUC Press, 2004), and Hunger (AUC Press, 2008). He was awarded the prestigious Oweiss Prize in 2001.

Peter Daniel, a freelance translator, has taught Arabic as a foreign language in Cairo for many years. He is the translator of As Doha Said by Bahaa Taher (AUC Press, 2008).

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