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Chicago by Alaa Al Aswany
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Sex, money and politics are the driving forces of society in this new novel from bestselling author Alaa al Aswany.A medley of Egyptian and American lives collides on the campus of the University of Illinois Medical Center in a post-9/11 Chicago, and crises of identity abound. Among the players are an a ...Show more
Chicago by Alaa Al Aswany
34.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Sex, money, and politics are the driving forces of society in this new novel from bestselling author Alaa Al Aswany. A medley of Egyptian and American lives collides on the campus of the University of Illinois Medical Center in a post-9/11 Chicago, and crises of identity abound. Among the players are an ...Show more
Friendly Fire by Alaa Al Aswany
29.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The new book from Alaa Al Aswany, author of the international bestsellers The Yacoubian Building and Chicago Friendly Fire is a novella and collection of short stories from Alaa Al Aswany, author of the bestselling The Yacoubian Building. As in that novel, Al Aswany dissects modern Egyptian society and ...Show more
The Automobile Club of Egypt by Alaa Al Aswany
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
From Egypt's most popular novelist - an absorbing, exuberant and powerfully moving story of a family swept up by social unrest in post-World War II Cairo. Abd el-Aziz Gaafar, formerly a well-respected landowner now in the grip of penury, moved his family to Cairo and took on menial work at the Automobil ...Show more
The Republic of False Truths by Alaa Al Aswany
32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'An amazing portrait of fanaticism and cynicism among Egyptian powermongers.' - ANDRE ACIMAN 'Al Aswany is a voice worth hearing from a country of which we know far too little.' - Sunday Times General Alwany is a pious man who loves his family. He also tortures and kills enemies of the state. Under th ...Show more
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
27.99 NZD
28.99 (3% off)
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
An international bestseller, 'The Yacoubian Building' is a mesmerising and controversial novel that is at once an impasssioned celebration and a ruthless dissection of a society dominated by bribery and corruption. The Yacoubian Building -- once grand, but now dilapidated -- stands on one of Cairo's mai ...Show more
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
36.99 NZD
39.99 (7% off)
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
An international bestseller, "The Yacoubian Building" is a mesmerising and controversial novel that is at once an impassioned celebration and a ruthless dissection of a society dominated by bribery and corruption. The Yacoubian building - once grand, but now dilapidated - stands on one of Cairo's main b ...Show more
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