Shortlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Shortlisted for the 2022 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\
Winner of the Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize, a lush experimental novel about love as a weapon of empire.\
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living in a rooftop shack. She is a nostalgic daughter of immigrants âreturningâ to a country sheâs never been to before, teaching English and living in a light-filled flat with balconies on all sides. They fall in love and he moves in. But soon their desireâfor one another, for the selves they want to become through the otherâtakes a violent turn that neither of them expected.\
A dark romance exposing the gaps in American identity politics, especially when exported overseas, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English is at once ravishing and wry, scathing and tender. Told in alternating perspectives, Noor Nagaâs experimental debut examines the ethics of fetishizing the homeland and punishing the beloved . . . and vice versa. In our globalized twenty-first-century world, what are the new faces (and races) of empire? When the revolution fails, how long can someone survive the disappointment? Who suffers and, more crucially, who gets to tell about it?
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Literary
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Author : Naga, Noor
Language : English
Published :2022-04-12
Number Of Pages : 192
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 164445081X
ISBN-13 : 9781644450819
Item weight : 0.57 lb
Dimensions : 0.75 in x 5.47 in x 8.23 in
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