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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Aswānī, ʻAlāʾ, 1957-     Subjects     Clubs -- Fiction.     Poor -- Fiction.     Rich people -- Fiction.     Social conflict -- Fiction.     Cairo (Egypt) -- Fiction.     Egypt -- Social conditions -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Aswānī, ʻAlāʾ, 1957-       by title:      The Automobile Club ...      Nady Alsayarat. Engl...       by call number:      FICTION ASW     Search the Web     Aswānī, ʻAlāʾ, 1957-     Clubs -- Fiction.     Poor -- Fiction.     Rich people -- Fiction.     Social conflict -- Fiction.     Cairo (Egypt) -- Fiction.     Egypt -- Social conditions -- Fiction.       MARC Display

The Automobile Club of Egypt : a novel / Alaa Al Aswany ; translated from the Arabic by Russell Harris. by Aswānī, ʻAlāʾ, 1957- HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2015. Call #: FICTION ASW Subjects Clubs -- Fiction.   Poor -- Fiction.   Rich people -- Fiction.   Social conflict -- Fiction.   Cairo (Egypt) -- Fiction.   Egypt -- Social conditions -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781443408431 (trade pbk.) Uniform title:  Nady Alsayarat. English English Edition:  1st Canadian ed. Description:  475 p. : ill., geneal. table ; 23 cm. Notes:  Translated from the Arabic. Summary:  Abd el-Aziz, formerly a landowner but now in the grips of extreme poverty, moves his family to Cairo and takes on menial work in the storeroom of The Automobile Club. This is Egypt immediately after the Second World War: the Club is a place of refuge and luxury for its European members and a place where Egyptians may appear only as servants. Egypt's corrupt, womanizing king serves as patron and his chief-of-staff, Alku, runs the show in all but name. Once Alku becomes dissatisfied with Abd el-Aziz, the man's days are numbered. His death--as much from shame as from injury after Alku has him beaten--sees his widow further impoverished, and two of his sons, Mahmud and Kemal, obliged to undertake work in the Club. As the whole family is drawn into the politics of the Club and the lives of its members, both servants and masters are subsumed by the unrest of the outside world. Soon the Egyptians of The Automobile Club of Egypt face a stark choice: to live safely, but without dignity, as servants, or to fight for their rights and risk everything. Genre:  Social commentary fiction. Arabic fiction -- Translations into English. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION ASW Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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