The author of the highly-acclaimed The Yacoubian Building returns with a story of love, sex, friendship, hatred, and ambition set in Chicago with a cast of American and Arab characters achingly human in their desires and needs.
Egyptian and American lives collide on a college campus in post-9/11 Chicago, and crises of identity abound in this extraordinary and eagerly anticipated new novel from Alaa al Aswany. Among the players are a sixties-style antiestablishment professor whose relationship with a younger African American woman becomes a moving target for intolerance; a veiled PhD candidate whose conviction in the principles of her traditional upbringing is shaken by her exposure to American society; an émigré whose fervent desire to embrace his American identity is tested when he is faced with the issue of his daughter's "honor"; an Egyptian informant who spouts religious doctrines while hankering after money and power; and a dissident student poet who comes to America to finance his literary aspirations, but whose experience in Chicago turns out to be more than he bargained for.
Populated by a cast of intriguing, true-to-life characters, Chicago offers an illuminating portrait of America--a complex, often contradictory land in which triumph and failure, opportunity and oppression, licentiousness and tender love, small dramas and big dreams coexist. Beautifully rendered, Chicago is a powerfully engrossing novel of culture and individuality from one of the most original voices in contemporary world literature.
Egyptian and American lives collide on a college campus in post-9/11 Chicago, and crises of identity abound in this extraordinary and eagerly anticipated new novel from Alaa al Aswany. Among the players are a sixties-style antiestablishment professor whose relationship with a younger African American woman becomes a moving target for intolerance; a veiled PhD candidate whose conviction in the principles of her traditional upbringing is shaken by her exposure to American society; an émigré whose fervent desire to embrace his American identity is tested when he is faced with the issue of his daughter's "honor"; an Egyptian informant who spouts religious doctrines while hankering after money and power; and a dissident student poet who comes to America to finance his literary aspirations, but whose experience in Chicago turns out to be more than he bargained for.
Populated by a cast of intriguing, true-to-life characters, Chicago offers an illuminating portrait of America--a complex, often contradictory land in which triumph and failure, opportunity and oppression, licentiousness and tender love, small dramas and big dreams coexist. Beautifully rendered, Chicago is a powerfully engrossing novel of culture and individuality from one of the most original voices in contemporary world literature.
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Hardback Editions
October 2008 : Hardback
| Title: Chicago: A Novel Author(s): Alaa Al Aswany ISBN: 0-06-145256-4 / 978-0-06-145256-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Harper Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
September 2008 : Hardback
| Title: Chicago Author(s): Alaa Al Aswany ISBN: 0-00-728518-3 / 978-0-00-728518-1 (UK edition) Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
2007 : Hardback
| Title: Chicago: A Novel Author(s): Alaa Al Aswany Publisher: HarperCollins Availability: Amazon More details... |
Paperback Editions
October 2009 : Paperback
| Title: Chicago: A Novel (P.S.) Author(s): Alaa Al Aswany ISBN: 0-06-145258-0 / 978-0-06-145258-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Harper Perennial Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 2009 : Paperback
| Title: Chicago Author(s): Alaa Al Aswany ISBN: 0-00-728624-4 / 978-0-00-728624-9 (UK edition) Publisher: HarperPerennial Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
September 2008 : Paperback
| Title: Chicago Author(s): Alaa Al Aswany ISBN: 0-00-728639-2 / 978-0-00-728639-3 (UK edition) Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
September 2008 : Paperback
| Title: Chicago Author(s): Alaa Al Aswany ISBN: 0-00-730395-5 / 978-0-00-730395-3 (UK edition) Publisher: HarperPerennial Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
Audio Editions
May 2009 : Audio CD
| Title: Chicago Author(s): Alaa Al Aswany ISBN: 0-00-731704-2 / 978-0-00-731704-2 (UK edition) Publisher: HarperPress Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
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