by Alaa El Aswany · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782742770373
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«Chicago» is the novel by Alaa El Aswany, published by Actes Sud in paperback (459 pages, in French).
Alaa El Aswany interweaves the stories of several Egyptian students in Chicago, where a small colony of exiles coexists with fear and surveillance by their country's embassy. Medical studies, personal aspirations and memories of Egypt mix in an America shaken by the 9/11 attacks.
This French edition from Actes Sud was published in 2007; the novel's original Arabic title is «شيكاجو».
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in exile, Arab identity and politics.
