Automobile Club d'Égypte / roman traduit de l'arabe par Gilles Gauthier

By:

Aswānī, ʻAlāʼ, 1957-

Contributor(s):

Harris, Russell [translator.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Arabic Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015Description: 475 pages : 18 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9782330053963

Uniform titles:

Nādī al-sayyārāt. French

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

892.7/37 23

LOC classification:

PJ7814.S93 N3313 2015

Summary: Cairo at the very end of Ottoman rule. Behind the doors of the Automobile Club of Egypt, Egyptian staff attend to the every need of Cairo's European elite - the way they always have done, it seems.But soon the social upheaval out on the street will break its way through the club's gilded doors, and its inhabitants above and below stairs must all confront their choices: to live safely without dignity, or to fight for their rights and risk everything.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	Footprints International School Library Network Toul Kork Campus TK Floor 4 Rear Hallway Shelf 1 (Adult/Secondary Foriegn Language/Khmer)	Fiction	ASW 892.7 PJ7814.S93 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	2024-0422

Cairo at the very end of Ottoman rule. Behind the doors of the Automobile Club of Egypt, Egyptian staff attend to the every need of Cairo's European elite - the way they always have done, it seems.But soon the social upheaval out on the street will break its way through the club's gilded doors, and its inhabitants above and below stairs must all confront their choices: to live safely without dignity, or to fight for their rights and risk everything.

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