The Other Place

preview-18
  • The Other Place Book Detail

  • Author : Ibrahim Abdel Meguid
  • Release Date : 2006-09-01
  • Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
  • Genre : Fiction
  • Pages : 263
  • ISBN 13 : 1617974064
  • File Size : 11,11 MB

The Other Place by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid PDF Summary

Book Description: The Other Place portrays the shallowness of the petrodollar culture and the price one pays for quick money. The protagonist of this prize-winning novel, an educated middle-class Egyptian from Alexandria, describes his experiences and those of migrant workers and professionals in one of the Gulf states, and their interaction with the oil-rich country's local elite and with agents of western businesses. The book pictures rather than states the desolation brought about when market values take over and the ravages that such an order causes to all who partake in it. Ibrahim Abdel Meguid succeeds in representing imaginatively the important phenomenon of migration and the barren landscape of the petrodollar culture, and at the same time penetrates the rationalizing mechanisms of the migrants and their psychological make-up. The Other Place was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 1996.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own The Other Place books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

The Other Place

The Other Place

File Size : 95,95 MB
Total View : 7944 Views
DOWNLOAD

The Other Place portrays the shallowness of the petrodollar culture and the price one pays for quick money. The protagonist of this prize-winning novel, an educ

Clouds over Alexandria

Clouds over Alexandria

File Size : 81,81 MB
Total View : 9306 Views
DOWNLOAD

In the 1970s, once-cosmopolitan Alexandria was at the forefront of the clash between Nasser’s socialist-era principles and the burgeoning fundamentalist movem

Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt

Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt

File Size : 55,55 MB
Total View : 2716 Views
DOWNLOAD

This book examines the link between cosmopolitanism in Egypt, from the nineteenth century through to the mid-twentieth century, and colonialism. It analyzes the

No One Sleeps in Alexandria

No One Sleeps in Alexandria

File Size : 56,56 MB
Total View : 1380 Views
DOWNLOAD

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