No One Sleeps in Alexandria

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  • No One Sleeps in Alexandria Book Detail

  • Author : Ibrāhīm ʻAbd al-Majīd
  • Release Date : 2006
  • Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
  • Genre : Fiction
  • Pages : 376
  • ISBN 13 : 9789774249617
  • File Size : 44,44 MB
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No One Sleeps in Alexandria by Ibrāhīm ʻAbd al-Majīd PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

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