Over the bridge
Mohamed El-Bisatie
Bok · Engelsk · 2006 · Roman
| Utgitt | The American University in Cairo Press , 2006
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| Omfang | 143
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| Opplysninger | Forging documents in an Egyptian government office, a bureaucrat 'authorizes' a police department for a nonexistent city in Upper Egypt in order to siphon off its monthly payroll. But beyond simply embezzling funds, he sets about imagining in detail the fictional city he has created-the wealthy new district with its villas and swimming pools, the restless inhabitants of the poverty-stricken old quarter, and the Nile bridge that links the two. Most of all, he pictures the cruelty and corruption of the city's chief of police. But the longer he spends envisioning this city and its inhabitants, th
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| ISBN | 977-424-974-7
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