Maryam's Maze by Mansoura Ez Eldin (2004, translated 2007)
Read: February 2012
Wow - I'm speeding through books at the moment it feels! This feeling may be helped on by the fact that I'm keeping up to date with the blog and by the fact that this last book was a slim volume!
I picked this book up a few years ago (gosh - that shows how long we've been in Egypt!) when I went to Makan for the second hand book fair. If I had picked it up post-'Being Abbas El Abd' then I might have been more turned-off by the likening to Poe or Palahniuk in the blurb. Unfortunatly this was another one of those 'modern' arabic novels that actually takes it too far for me - I can't do with the psychological stories where dream and reality can't be distinguished and the characters are all fleeting and may be part of their imagination or real. There was nothing familiar in this book that I could identify with in terms of the content or the setting. It's one I'll be passing on, I'm afraid.
Read: February 2012
Wow - I'm speeding through books at the moment it feels! This feeling may be helped on by the fact that I'm keeping up to date with the blog and by the fact that this last book was a slim volume!
I picked this book up a few years ago (gosh - that shows how long we've been in Egypt!) when I went to Makan for the second hand book fair. If I had picked it up post-'Being Abbas El Abd' then I might have been more turned-off by the likening to Poe or Palahniuk in the blurb. Unfortunatly this was another one of those 'modern' arabic novels that actually takes it too far for me - I can't do with the psychological stories where dream and reality can't be distinguished and the characters are all fleeting and may be part of their imagination or real. There was nothing familiar in this book that I could identify with in terms of the content or the setting. It's one I'll be passing on, I'm afraid.
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