ساعة رملية تعمل بالكهرباء

For twenty years a writer in a poor Cairo neighbourhood has tried and failed to finish a novel; what he writes, about religion, sex and politics, nobody buys. Alone, angry at everything, he drifts between old memories and his present, learning that forty is only a rehearsal, that money has a will stronger than good intentions, and that society can do without him.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

215 pages in the original

First published

2014 by Dar Bada'il

ISBN

9789778511000 (original)