Lit in Translation

جنازة جديدة لعماد حمدي

Janaza jadida li-'Imad Hamdi

“A New Funeral for Imad Hamdi” (title translated by AI)

Waheed al-Taweela (وحيد الطويلة, born 1960)

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Fagnun is an artist who happens to be a police officer: his father forced him into the police academy, and his spirit still looks for freedom. Leading the reader into a strange underworld of killers, informers, thugs, registered prostitutes and people in love with the uniform, the novel follows an officer who faces crime and corruption at once, and who is troubled less by their gloom than by his own inner prison, torn between his artistic leanings and his job, in a world full of crime, love and art.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
303 pages in the original
Genres
Crime (assigned by AI)
Set in
Egypt
First published
2019 by Dar al-Shorouk
Author's age
59 when first published