The Automobile Club of Egypt

The Automobile Club of Egypt by Alaa Al Aswany


ISBN
9781926428390
Published
Released
01 / 09 / 2015
Binding
Paperback
Pages
496
Dimensions
154 x 233 x 37mm

Abd el-Aziz Gaafar, formerly a well-respected landowner now in the grip of penury, moved his family to Cairo and took on menial work at the Automobile Club – a place of refuge and luxury for its European members, a place where Egyptians may appear only as servants.

Alku, the lifelong Nubian servant of Egypt's corrupt king, runs the show in all but name. The servants, a squabbling, humorous, and deeply human group, live in a perpetual state of fear: beaten for their mistakes, their wages dependent on Alku's whims. When Abd el-Aziz's pride gets the better of him and he stands up for himself, his death – as much from shame as from his injuries after Alku has him beaten – leaves his widow further impoverished, and two of his sons obliged to work in the Club.

As the family is drawn into the turbulent politics – public and private – both servants and masters are subsumed by Egypt's social upheaval. Soon the Egyptians of the Automobile Club face a stark choice: to live safely but without dignity as servants, or to fight for their rights and risk everything
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