Description
After seven years in prison, Warif is released to a changed Cairo. Freedom so far has been endless, inscrutable meetings with official-looking strangers, trying to get his job as a translator back. This new Cairo, busy with expats and bureaucrats, is proving disorienting: What is he supposed to make of these self-assured newcomers who are so certain of his obsolescence, his subjugation, his solitude? They seem happy to provide him with a salary, if he's willing to give up the work that gave his life meaning. As his encounters more-and-more resemble interrogations and the futility of trying to escape the system set against him threatens to suffocate him, Warif escapes into the vivid colors of the city, looking deeper and deeper into the food, the people, the buildings, and the flowers, until what's real blurs into fantasy.
Author: Mohamed Kheir
Publisher: Two Lines Press
Published: 05/13/2025
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781949641783
ISBN10: 1949641783
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Magical Realism
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | World Literature | Middle East | Egypt & North Africa