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Sto caricando le informazioni... No One Sleeps in Alexandria (1996)di Ibrahim Abdel Meguid
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Really liked this book about Alexandria during WWII, especiallly the relationship between Sheik al-Din and the Christian Dimyan. The novel seemed to be as much about religious diviersity as about the city during the war and how it effected the lives of its citizens. Interesting, similiar in time to the Durrell Quartet but like a different world. ( ) Arabic point of view of Alexandria during the WWII years, and how the people were affected. It tells the story of two good friends, Magd-al-Din, a devout Muslim peasant, who has been banished from his village and a Coptic Christian, Dimyan, who meet in Alexandria and become as close as brothers. We see the panorama of Alexandrian life. The author intersperses the story of the two friends with descriptions of Alexandria--historical and of other people, then, like reportage: global news about the war, news of Egypt then Alexandria, and pop culture, both American and Egyptian. The two men get jobs for the railroad then are transferred near al Alamein. The bombing by both Germans and Italians in Alexandria is as horrific as the London Blitz. Finally, when fighting in their al-Alamein area becomes so bad, they decide to return to Alexandria. But tragedy strikes. I enjoyed the book for a different view of Alexandria and of her people encapsulated in the two men. I liked the fact that they were very tolerant of each other's religion, questioning each other to learn. They discussed, did not argue. The author made the city come alive for me, but some of the humor was over my head. Fascinating information on "Pompey's Pillar", commemorating Emperor Diocletian. The Copts date their calendar from his accession [because of his Great Persecution]. It occurred mainly in Egypt. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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This sweeping novel depicts the intertwined lives of an assortment of Egyptians--Muslims and Copts, northerners and southerners, men and women--as they begin to settle in Egypt's great second city, and explores how the Second World War, starting in supposedly faraway Europe, comes crashing down on them, affecting their lives in fateful ways. Central to the novel is the story of a striking friendship between Sheikh Magd al-Din, a devout Muslim with peasant roots in northern Egypt, and Dimyan, a Copt with roots in southern Egypt, in their journey of survival and self-discovery. Woven around this narrative are the stories of other characters, in the city, in the villages, or in the faraway desert, closer to the fields of combat. And then there is the story of Alexandria itself, as written by history, as experienced by its denizens, and as touched by the war.Throughout, the author captures the cadences of everyday life in the Alexandria of the early 1940s, and boldly explores the often delicate question of religious differences in depth and on more than one level. No One Sleeps in Alexandria adds an authentically Egyptian vision of Alexandria to the many literary--but mainly Western--Alexandrias we know already: it may be the same space in which Cavafy, Forster, and Durrell move but it is certainly not the same world. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)892.736Literature Literature of other languages Middle Eastern languages Arabic (Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan) Arabic fiction 1945–2000Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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