Menorahs and Minarets

ISBN-13: 9789774168314 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 264 str.

Kamal Ruhayyim; Sarah Enany

Opis

In the third part of Kamal Ruhayyim's trilogy, Galal, the son of a mixed Jewish/Muslim family returns to Egypt after ten years in Paris. What he finds is a society in flux, yet still stifled by convention. As his sense of alienation increases, Galal searches for a way to put down roots in a society where he feels he no longer truly belongs, as he struggles with his confused relationships with his extended family: Jewish cosmopolitan businessmen on one side and Muslim rural farmers on the other.
Ruhayyim paints an uncompromising portrait of the rigid traditions, passed on from generation to generation, that reach into the most intimate areas of peoples' lives, as family elders curb or otherwise circumscribe how the younger generation lives and loves.

O autorze

Ruhayyim, Kamal
Kamal Ruhayyim is an Egyptian writer. He has also worked with the Egyptian police force and Interpol. Enany, Sarah
Sarah Enany is a translator and lecturer in the English Department of Cairo University.