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The Automobile Club of Egypt

The beating death of a once-respected Egyptian landowner-turned-servant in a luxury club subjects his widow and sons to poverty and turbulent politics that force the club's oppressed employees to make a life-risking choice.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Aswānī, ʻAlāʼ, 1957-
Other Authors:	Harris, Russell (Translator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English Arabic
Published:	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Edition:	First United States edition.
Subjects:	Egypt > Social conditions > Fiction. Egypt > Politics and government > Fiction.
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Summary:	The beating death of a once-respected Egyptian landowner-turned-servant in a luxury club subjects his widow and sons to poverty and turbulent politics that force the club's oppressed employees to make a life-risking choice.
Item Description:	Originally published in Arabic as "Nādī al-sayyārāt."
Physical Description:	475 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN:	9780307957214 (hardcover) 0307957217 (hardcover)
Author Notes:	ALAA AL ASWANY is the author of The Yacoubian Building, which was long-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2006 and was the best-selling novel in the Arab world for more than five years; Chicago, named by Newsday as the best translated novel of 2006; and the story collection Friendly Fire . He has received numerous awards internationally, including the Bashrahil Prize for the Arabic novel, the Kavafis Award from Greece and the Premio Grinzane Cavour from Italy. He was recently named by the London Times as one of the best fifty authors to have been translated into English over the last fifty years. Translated from the Arabic by Russell Harris.