La Monja Gitana / The Gypsy Nun
Language: Spanish
Published by Textofilia, 2024
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- New

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- Title
- La Monja Gitana / The Gypsy Nun
- Author
- Malak Rizk
- Publisher
- Textofilia
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- Spanish
- ISBN 10
- 6078892037
- ISBN 13
- 9786078892037
La monja gitana es una historia en la que se cruzan los destinos de tres mujeres: la gitana Fatheya, una monja expulsada llamada Aliaa y la joven Samar. Sus caminos se enlazan con los destinos complejos de tres hombres: el gitano Malek, el oficial Hussein y el hijo de un Pachá. Sus vidas se tocarán en momentos claves que los marcarán durante toda su existencia. Los acontecimientos se producen en el bajo fondo de un barrio desfavorecido en las afueras del viejo Cairo copto, no musulmán, a finales de los años 50. Rizk introduce al lector en la cultura nacional egipcia, al mismo tiempo que une mundos diferentes y poco comunes: el de los gitanos con sus tradiciones y costumbres, cómo viven al margen de la sociedad y de la ley con sus propias leyes y rituales; el de los conventos a través de los ojos inocentes de una hermana religiosa, quien termina rompiendo sus votos; y finalmente el mundo de un palacio de la época monárquica, visto en ruinas después de la Revolución egipcia de los militares en 1952.
The Gypsy Nun is a story where the destinies of three women intersect: Fatheya, a Romani woman; Aliaa, an expelled nun; and the young Samar. Their paths intertwine with the complex fates of three men: Malek the Romani man, Officer Hussein, and the son of a Pasha. Their lives will touch at key moments that mark them forever. The events unfold in the underworld of a disadvantaged neighborhood on the outskirts of old Coptic Cairo―non-Muslim―at the end of the 1950s. Rizk introduces the reader to Egyptian national culture while bringing together different, uncommon worlds: that of the Romani, with their traditions and customs―how they live on the margins of society and the law under their own rules and rituals; that of convents through the innocent eyes of a religious sister who ends up breaking her vows; and finally the world of a palace from the monarchic era, seen in ruins after the 1952 Egyptian military revolution.
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About the Author
Escritor egipcio nacido y radicado en el Cairo. Ha publicado en árabe Distintas especies, nominada al premio de novela Al Ghassan Kanafany de literatura árbe. La monja gitana es su primera obra traducida al español.
An Egyptian writer born and based in Cairo. He has published in Arabic Different Species, which was nominated for the Al Ghassan Kanafani Prize for Arabic fiction. The Gypsy Nun is his first work translated into Spanish.
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