by Alaa El Aswany · Actes Sud Editions · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782330109042
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«J'ai couru vers le Nil» is the contemporary fiction novel by Alaa El Aswany, published by Actes Sud in paperback (432 pages, in French).
Cairo, 2011. In Tahrir Square, Asma and Mazen experience their first moments of love while medical students Khaled and Dania tend to the wounded. Achraf, a bourgeois Copt, catches the revolutionary fervor after meeting Asma; Issam, a disillusioned ex-communist, suffers the ambition of his wife Nourhane. Each character represents a facet of the Egyptian revolution. This novel is banned in Egypt.
Translation from Arabic by Gilles Gauthier. Published in French by Actes Sud in September 2018.
For readers of political and social fiction interested in the Egyptian revolution and contemporary Arabic literature.
