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Friendly Fire by Alaa Al Aswany
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The new book from Alaa Al Aswany, author of the international bestsellers 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 society and ...Show more
The Automobile Club of Egypt by Alaa Al Aswany
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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: Fiction | 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 Republic of False Truths by Alaa Al Aswany
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling author of The Yacoubian Building'Glorious' Observer'Amazing' André Aciman'Masterly' Sunday Times'Blistering' Financial TimesGeneral Alwany is a pious man who loves his family. He also tortures and kills enemies of the state.Under the regime of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt is gripped by cron ...Show more
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
An international bestseller, 'The Yacoubian Building' is a mesmerising and controversial novel that is at once an impasssioned celebration and a ruthless dissection of a society dominated by bribery and corruption. The Yacoubian Building -- once grand, but now dilapidated -- stands on one of Cairo's mai ...Show more
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