{"product_id":"traces-gamal-al-ghitani-9789774169533","title":"Traces: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne of Egypt's greatest contemporary writers reflects on life and love\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This haunting memoir, written ten years before al-Ghitani's death, weaves together a series of vignettes in a style that mimics the uneven, discontinuous nature of memory itself. \u003cbr\u003e These fragments are summoned from across the span of a singular lifetime. We read of his childhood adventures, his erotic awakenings, his time as a political prisoner, and his reports from the battlefront in Iraq and the corridors of power in Syria. Vivid passages capture fleeting glances of strangers through car windows, flavors and scents of delicacies savored, dreams and sorrows of neighbors in the apartment blocks of Cairo before Nasser, as well as chance conversations at points of transit, in cafés, on elegant streets, and with unnamed paramours. \u003cbr\u003e These memories, and al-Ghitani's musings on memory's own finitude and mutability, make \u003ci\u003eTraces\u003c\/i\u003e both a memoir and a meditation on memory itself, in all its inscrutable workings and inevitable betrayals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gamal Al-Ghitani\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9774169530\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789774169533\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e American University in Cairo Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Gamal Al-Ghitani","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48241782030591,"sku":"9789774169533","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4ec5c6dc-813e-4b8b-bd2a-89ca0149eb54.jpg?v=1772655874","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/traces-gamal-al-ghitani-9789774169533","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}