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by Alaa Al Aswany | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0007286244 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingpam99wing of Isle of Cumbrae, Scotland United Kingdom on 12/28/2013
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Journal Entry 1 by wingpam99wing from Isle of Cumbrae, Scotland United Kingdom on Saturday, December 28, 2013
to read and release

Journal Entry 2 by wingpam99wing at Troon, Scotland United Kingdom on Tuesday, February 23, 2016
challenging stories of life for Egyptian expatriates in the US post 9/11, set around the medical faculty at the University of Illinois. Some quite dark stuff here around identity, religion, culture, power and relationships, and a particularly dark ending, but Al Aswany is a great storyteller.

Journal Entry 3 by wingpam99wing at Glasgow, Scotland United Kingdom on Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Released 8 yrs ago (2/23/2016 UTC) at Glasgow, Scotland United Kingdom

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posting to the winner of the Global Sweepstakes

Journal Entry 4 by wingeponine38wing at Winchester, Massachusetts USA on Saturday, March 5, 2016
Thank you pam99! It looks good; I've heard of this author but have never read anything by him. (Love the cover, too).

Thanks also for the nice Glasgow postcard.

I never win sweepstakes so this is really special!

Edit 4/15/17: I'm partway through this book and am enjoying it (I often read several books at once) :-) . Am offering it in bookstogive's General Literature VBB. As soon as it's requested, I'll finish it...if not before. :-)

Journal Entry 5 by wingeponine38wing at Winchester, Massachusetts USA on Sunday, September 22, 2019
Finally finished/reread this, and I did like it. Sometimes I start too many books at once and then some get left behind. This was an interesting and sometimes amusing story of the difficulty of integrating into a new society, especially the vagaries of intercultural intimate relationships.

There were so many characters that I did go to Wikipedia to get capsule descriptions of them. It was helpful. :-) In many books I need help keeping the characters sorted.

Thanks, pam99, for sharing this book!

Journal Entry 6 by wingeponine38wing at Little Free Library, Todd Rd. in Lexington, Massachusetts USA on Monday, September 23, 2019

Released 4 yrs ago (9/22/2019 UTC) at Little Free Library, Todd Rd. in Lexington, Massachusetts USA

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