Otared

Mohammed Rabie

ISBN 10: 9774167848 / ISBN 13: 9789774167843

Published by The American University in Cairo Press, EG, 2016

About this Item

Ahmed Otared is a Cairene police officer and trained sniper. When the country is invaded and occupied by a force of foreign mercenaries he joins the underground resistance, embarking a new bloodthirsty career.As the violence he encounters and participates in intensifies, a terrifying reality, bubbling below surface of `normal' life, is revealed to him, and he finds himself a fantasia of torture and torment, a hellscape from which there is no deliverance.This unflinching and grisly tale is made vivid through Mohammed Rabie's brutally beautiful writing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Otared
• Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press, EG
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9774167848
• ISBN 13: 9789774167843
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION

A horror-filled obituary on Egypt's failed revolution

2025: fourteen years after the failed revolution, Egypt is invaded once more. As traumatized Egyptians eke out a feral existence in Cairo's dusty downtown, former cop Ahmed Otared joins a group of fellow officers seeking Egypt's liberation through the barrel of a gun.

As Cairo becomes a foul cauldron of drugs, sex, and senseless violence, Otared finally understands his country's fate.

In this unflinching and grisly novel, Mohammad Rabie envisages a grim future for Egypt, where death is the only certainty.

About the Authors

Born in 1978, Mohammad Rabie is the author of three acclaimed novels. His first novel, Amber's Planet, won first prize in the Emerging Writers category of the Sawiris Cultural Award in 2012, and he received the same award for Otared in 2016. He lives in Cairo, Egypt.

Robin Moger studied Egyptology and Arabic at Oxford University before working as a journalist in Cairo for six years. He is the translator of A Dog with No Tail by Hamdi Abu Golayyel (AUC Press, 2009) and Women of Karantina by Nael Eltoukhy (AUC Press, 2014), and his translation for Writing Revolution (2013) won the 2013 English PEN Award for outstanding writing in translation.