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Harper
October 2008
On Sale: October 1, 2008
352 pages
ISBN: 0061452564
EAN: 9780061452567
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The author of the highly acclaimed The Yacoubian
Building returns with a story of love, sex, friendship,
hatred, and ambition set in Chicago, with a cast of American
and Arab characters achingly human in their desires and needs. Egyptian and American lives collide on a college campus in
post-9/11 Chicago, and crises of identity abound in this
extraordinary and eagerly anticipated new novel from Alaa Al
Aswany. Among the players are a sixties-style
anti-establishment professor whose relationship with a
younger African-American woman becomes a moving target for
intolerance; a veiled PhD candidate whose belief in the
principles of her traditional upbringing is shaken by her
exposure to American society; an émigré whose fervent desire
to embrace his American identity is tested when he is faced
with the issue of his daughter's "honor"; an Egyptian
informant who spouts religious doctrines while hankering
after money and power; and a dissident student poet who
comes to America to finance his literary aspirations but
whose experience in Chicago turns out to be more than he
bargained for. Populated by a cast of intriguing,
true-to-life characters, Chicago offers an
illuminating portrait of America—a complex, often
contradictory land in which triumph and failure, opportunity
and oppression, licentiousness and tender love, small dramas
and big dreams, coexist. Beautifully rendered,
Chicago is a powerfully engrossing novel of culture
and individuality from one of the most original voices in
contemporary world literature.
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