Being Abbas El Abd by Ahmed Alaidy
What is madness asks the narrator of Ahmed Alaidy's jittery, funny, and angry new novel, "Being Abbas el Abd". Assuring readers that they are about to find out, the narrator takes us on his subsequent itinerary through the insanity of present-day Cairo - in and out of minibuses, malls, and crash pads. Sharing the intensity of Chuck Palahniuk's "Fight Club" and the hip sensibility of Douglas Coupland's Generation X, Ahmed Alaidy's work pushes the limits of written Arabic, developing private meanings and personal rhythms that mirror the weft and warp of the narrator's mind and revel in every linguistic register from ironic high Classical Arabic to the ingenious abuse of the streets via the hip colloquial language of Egypt's what-have-I-got-to-lose generation. A literary sensation in its original Arabic edition, "Being Abbas el Abd" heralds the arrival of a major new voice in Arabic literature.
'A cult novel based in Cairo's shopping malls described as a 'Chuck Palahniuk-inspired rollercoaster ride through the insanity of Cairo' Ahmed Alaidy, a 36-year-old former scriptwriter is a great chronicler of the reality of day-to-day life in Egypt.' Voyager 201009
Ahmed Alaidy was born in 1974, studied marketing at Cairo University, and has worked as a scriptwriter on quiz shows and for the cinema, and as a book designer. He has written satirical stories for young people and currently writes a political comic strip for an Egyptian weekly. Alaidy has participated in international writers' programs at The University of Iowa and Hong Kong Baptist University. He has previously published a long short story; Being Abbas el Abd is his first novel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781906697051 |
| ISBN 10 | 1906697051 |
| Title | Being Abbas El Abd |
| Author | Ahmed Alaidy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Arabia Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2008-10-29 |
| Number of pages | 131 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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