We’ll win or lose it here
Robert F. Worth: Lessons from Tahrir Square, 21 September 2017
The City Always Wins
by Omar Robert Hamilton.
Faber, 312 pp., £14.99, August 2017,978 0 571 33517 6 Show More
by Omar Robert Hamilton.
Faber, 312 pp., £14.99, August 2017,
Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt
by Yasmine ElRashidi.
Tim Duggan, 181 pp., £11.70, June 2017,978 0 7704 3729 9 Show More
by Yasmine ElRashidi.
Tim Duggan, 181 pp., £11.70, June 2017,
“... most charismatic figures and the author’s cousin. No such verité aspirations can be found in Yasmine ElRashidi’s Chronicle of a Last Summer, an elliptical, deceptively placid narrative that scarcely mentions the events of 2011. It is very much a novel about the revolt, but only as seen through its origins and ... ”