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The Crocodiles

ISBN-13: 9781609805715

Contributor(s): Youssef Rakha (author), Robin Moger (translated by)

Subjects: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post 1945)

Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Publisher Imprint: Seven Stories Press

Publication Date: 04-12-2014

Format: Paperback

Availability: In stock

£13.99

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About the book

Set in Cairo between 1997 and 2011, The Crocodiles is narrated in numbered, poem-like paragraphs, set against the backdrop of a burning Tahrir Square. One man looks back on the magical and explosive period of his life when he and two friends started a secret poetry club amidst a time of drugs, messy love affairs, violent sex and clumsy but determined intellectual bravado and retranslations of the Beat poets. Rakha's masterly novel of growth and change which begins with a suicide and ends with a doomed revolution, forcefully captures 30 years in a living, daring and burning Cairo.

The Crocodiles

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