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5.0 out of 5 stars
A very good read about Cairo !,
This review is from: Cairo Swan Song: A Modern Arabic Novel (Modern Arabic Literature) (Hardcover)
I read this book in Arabic (its original language)..it was the first time for me to read for Mekawy Said , I enjoyed reading it a lot ! & could not let it down until I finished it , in the shadows I had the same feelings after I read (the yakobian building ) by Alaa Alaswany .., but the novel is totally different.
The title is a about the last song performed by a swan before its death .. so we have our narrator & protagonist ; and through observing his chaos ending life ..we see the deformation & collapsing of the contemporary Cairo ..although the events are mainly in downtown . Through the journey of this unbalanced ..confused (can even called psycho) poet & his surroundings , we can see the political ..cultural ..economical & social life of Cairo .., we see street children , foreigners overlapping (American ..German ..Swiss ..Mexican ..Singaporean..Sudanese..etc) , a weird combination so the result is numerous various interactions!! We see Islamist .. wahabi..Sufi ..etc , strange & different types of women that each of them reflect a strong metaphor in the protagonist's life .. The novel expresses the shocking deformation of the contemporary Egyptian society in the globalization era with an intelligent & elegant style .. My personal note is that it may be so gloomy with the death as an end , I really wish there was even a tiny light instead , because I believe in hope ,even though I have to confess it was a very symbolic end ! |
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Cairo Swan Song: A Modern Arabic Novel (Modern Arabic Literature) by Mekkawi Said (Hardcover - November 9, 2009)
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