The Automobile Club of Egypt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Automobile Club of Egypt write by Alaa Al Aswany. This book was released on 2015-08-22. The Automobile Club of Egypt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A rollicking, exuberant and powerfully moving story of a family swept up by social unrest in post–World War II Cairo Abd el-Aziz Gaafar, formerly a well-respected landowner now in the grip of penury, moves his family to Cairo and takes on menial work at the Automobile Club—a place of refuge and luxury for its European members, but one 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 of Egypt—public and private—both servants and masters are subsumed by the country’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.
The Automobile Club of Egypt
The Automobile Club of Egypt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Automobile Club of Egypt write by Alaa Al Aswany. This book was released on 2015-08-18. The Automobile Club of Egypt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In British-occupied Egypt, on the eve of the 1952 revolution, respected landowner Abd el-Aziz Gaafar has fallen on hard times. Bankrupt, he moves his family to Cairo and takes a menial job at the Automobile Club, a luxurious lodge for its European members, where Egyptians appear only as fearful servants. When Abd el-Aziz’s pride gets the better of him and he stands up for himself, he is subjected to a corporal punishment that ultimately kills him—leaving two of his sons obliged to work in the Club. As the nation teeters on the brink of change, both servants and masters are subsumed by social upheaval, and the Egyptians of the Automobile Club face a choice: to live safely but without dignity as servants, or to risk everything and fight for their rights. Exuberant and powerfully moving, The Automobile Club of Egypt is an essential work of social criticism from one of the Arab world’s greatest literary voices.
The Automobile Club of Egypt
The Automobile Club of Egypt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Automobile Club of Egypt write by ʻAlāʼ Aswānī. This book was released on 2015. The Automobile Club of Egypt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Republic of False Truths
The Republic of False Truths - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Republic of False Truths write by Alaa Al Aswany. This book was released on 2021. The Republic of False Truths available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.
The Automobile Club of Egypt
The Automobile Club of Egypt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Automobile Club of Egypt write by Alaa Al Aswany. This book was released on 2016-01-07. The Automobile Club of Egypt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Inside the walls of the Automobile Club of Egypt two very different worlds collide - Cairo's European elite and the Egyptian staff who wait on them. The servants, a squabbling, humorous and deeply human group, live in a perpetual state of fear under the tyrannical rule of Alku. When Abd el-Aziz Gaafar becomes the target of Alku's cruelty and his pride gets the better of him, a devastating act sends ripples through his family. Soon, the Gaafars are drawn into the turbulent politics of the club - both public and private - and servants and masters are subsumed by Egypt's social upheaval. Egyptians both inside and outside the Automobile Club will all face a stark choice: to live safely without dignity, or to fight for their rights and risk everything.
