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If an Egyptian cannot speak English : a novel / Noor Naga.

ISBN: 9781644451717
ISBN: 1644451719
Physical Description: 1 online resource (186 pages)
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2022]
Copyright: &copy;2022

Summary:

In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a caf̌ in Cairo. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living in a rooftop shack. She is a nostalgic daughter of immigrants "returning" to a country she's never been to before, teaching English and living in a light-filled flat with balconies on all sides. They fall in love and he moves in. But soon their desire--for one another, for the selves they want to become through the other--takes a violent turn that neither of them expected.