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Like a summer never to be repeated /
"Like a Summer Never to Be Repeated is a fascinating and highly experimental story based loosely around the author's own experiences in Egypt as a Moroccan student and visiting intellectual. In Cairo the narrator, Hammad, takes us on a deeply personal journey of discovery from the heady da...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Arabic |
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Cairo, Egypt ; New York, NY :
American University in Cairo Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Modern Arabic literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Like a Summer Never to Be Repeated is a fascinating and highly experimental story based loosely around the author's own experiences in Egypt as a Moroccan student and visiting intellectual. In Cairo the narrator, Hammad, takes us on a deeply personal journey of discovery from the heady days of the 1950s and 1960s, with all the optimism and excitement surrounding Moroccan independence, Suez, and Abdel Nasser, up to the 1990s and the time of writing, revealing an individual intensely concerned with Arab life and culture. Meanwhile, his regular visits to Cairo allow us watch a culture in transition over four decades. Exploring themes of change, the role of culture in society, memory, and writing, in a text that combines narrative fiction with literary criticism, philosophical musings, and quotation, Like a Summer Never to Be Repeated is among the most innovative works of modern Arabic literature and a testimony to Mohammed Berrada's position as a leading pioneer of modern Arabic writing."--Jacket |
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| Notas: | Originally published in Arabic in 1999 as Mithla ṣayf lan yatakarrar. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (181 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781617974359 1617974358 1306492378 9781306492379 9781617971587 1617971588 |