In the Spider's Room by Muhammad Abdelnabi
A gripping tale of sexuality and persecution in contemporary Egypt-
My First and Only Love
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Gold Dust
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A Stranger in Baghdad
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Fractured Destinies
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Gaza Weddings
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Time of White Horses
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The Longing of the Dervish
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Here Is a Body
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The Jinn Daughter
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A Recipe for Daphne
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The The Girl with Braided Hair
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A Beautiful White Cat Walks with Me
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The Night Will Have Its Say
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The Egyptian Assassin
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The Magnificent Conman of Cairo
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History of Ash
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The House of the Coptic Woman
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The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody
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Suleiman's Ring
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The Men Who Swallowed the Sun
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A Nose and Three Eyes
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I Do Not Sleep
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The Lady of Zamalek
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Cigarette Number Seven
One of the most brilliant Egyptian authors today … This beautifully written and poetic book moved me to tears; it is an ode to freedom and a real act of bravery* Leila Slimani, Winner of the British book awards fiction debut award for Lullaby, Best Books of 2019, The Guardian *
Beautiful and immensely enjoyable . . . to read In the Spider’s Room is to enter a powerful story. -- Mada Masr
Beautiful and immensely enjoyable . . . to read In the Spider’s Room is to enter a powerful story. -- Mada Masr
Born in 1978, Muhammad Abdelnabi is the author of two novels and four short-story collections. His The Ghost of Anton Chekov won first prize in the Emerging Writers category of the Sawiris Cultural Award for short-story collections in 2011. In the Spider's Room was shorlisted for the 2017 International Prize for Arabic Fiction and was joint-winner of the 2017 Sawiris Cultural Award for novels in the Emerging Writers category. He lives near Banha in Egypt.
Translator of the winning novel in the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and twice winner of the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, Jonathan Wright was formerly the Reuters bureau chief in Cairo. He has translated Alaa Al Aswany, Youssef Ziedan, and Hassan Blassim. He lives in London, UK.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9789774168758 |
| ISBN 10 | 9774168755 |
| Title | In the Spider's Room |
| Author | Muhammad Abdelnabi |
| Series | Hoopoe Fiction Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The American University in Cairo Press |
| Year published | 2018-07-30 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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