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Otared
عطارد · 'Utarid
Mohammad Rabie (محمد ربيع, born 1978)
Translated by Robin Moger
English editions
In EnglishOtared
Hoopoe · Egypt · 15 October 2016 · Paperback · 352 pages
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Ahmed Otared served in the police that broke apart on 28 January 2011. Some ten years on, an occupier no one can name holds Egypt, and the scattered survivors of his old force wage a people's resistance amid the wreckage of Cairo. Killing is random and daily, an amplified echo of the massacres after the revolution, as if the counter-revolution's dark fantasies had come true. The story moves back and forth in time.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 304 pages in the original
- Genres
- Speculative, Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Egypt
- First published
- 2015 by Dar al-Tanwir
- Author's age
- 37 when first published
- ISBN
9789938886610 (original)
9789774167843 (Hoopoe, Egypt)
- More
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