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Language: English
Published by Hoopoe, 2016
Series: Book 8 of 31 - Hoopoe Fiction
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- Title
- Otared: A Novel (Hoopoe Fiction)
- Author
- Mohammad Rabie
- Publisher
- Hoopoe
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 9774167848
- ISBN 13
- 9789774167843
- Series
- Book 8 of 31: Hoopoe Fiction
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.
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About the Author
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.
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