An Egyptian Novel BiographyThe protagonist has Egyptian roots going back many generations: on her fathers side, to the expulsion of the Jews of Spain in 1492, when seven brothers of the Kastil family (from Castilla) landed on the Gaza coast after many trials and tribulations. Her mothers side goes back even further, to the only family that Jewish history has ignored: the ones who said No to Moses and stayed in Egypt. The protagonist has Egyptian roots going back many
and then as a breaking down into "disconnectedness" where the only form of communication is a radio tape that endlessly repeats itself
It is a remarkable achievement by a writer who was born in 1975 and had no personal experience of the era it describes
this bawdy
A drug trafficking couple visits Paris at the same time as a psychopathic cannibal
Gunter Grass
"Beautiful and strange
anecdotes and tales
It is a novel for sophisticated readers
storyteller of the Thousand and One Nights
Thrice nominated for the Nation- al Book Award — The Floating Opera
Alex Andriesse is a writer
Florence Xiangyun Zhang is an associate professor at Université Paris Diderot