Friendly Fire

Friendly Fire by Alaa Al Aswany


ISBN
9780007315598
Published
Released
03 / 08 / 2009
Binding
Paperback
Pages
300
Dimensions
135 x 216mm

Nine short stories and a novella make up this latest offering by Alaa Al Aswany‚ author of the bestselling THE YACOUBIAN BUILDING. As in that novel‚ Al Aswany dissects modern Egyptian society and reveals with skill and detachment the hypocrisy‚ violence and abuse of power characteristic of a world in moral crisis.

Here‚ though‚ the focus has shifted from the broad historical canvas to the minute stitches of pain that hold together an individual‚ a family‚ a school classroom‚ or the relationship between a man and a woman. Can a man so alienated from his society that he regards all its members as no better than microbes wriggling under a microscope survive within it? Can cynical religiosity triumph over human decency? Can a man put the thought of a delicious dish of beans behind him long enough to mourn his father's death?

Alongside these wry questions‚ other‚ less mordant perspectives also have their place: an aging cabaret dancer bestows the blessing of a vanished world on her lover's son; a crippled boy wins subjective victory from objective disaster. FRIENDLY FIRE‚ readers will find again the vivid‚ passionate characters of today's Cairo‚ clamouring to be heard.

FRIENDLY FIRE will also feature an introduction by Alaa Al Aswany giving the history of the eponymous novella‚ which was banned in Egypt for a decade.
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