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Birds of Amber
Birds of Amber
Birds of Amber
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During the 1956 Suez War or the Tripartite Aggression, as it is known in Egyp life in Alexandria goes on. The railroad workers and their families live in the low-income housing of el- Masakin, along the Mahmudiya Canal, but some of them take us on forays into the other, cosmopolitan Alexandria, whose European denizens, mainly Greeks, Italians, and Jews are departing in droves. This spellbinding novel teems with memorable characters, not a few of whom are themselves storytellers: a budding novelist writing about el-Masakin and its eccentric denizens and about his own improbable love affair with a 12-year-old girl; a spice merchant dreaming of the bygone glory of his ancestors and their trade along the spice road, beginning on the Malabar Coast; a train guard who is a teller of very tall tales; and a would-be filmmaker trying to make a film showing what happened in Port Said during the war. As in his earlier novel, No One Sleeps in Alexandria, Ibrahim Abdel Meguid here combines historical fact with fiction, and the mundane with the fantastical, to weave an engrossing, multilayered story of stories.
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Release dateApr 1, 2005
ISBN9781617971426
Birds of Amber
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Ibrahim Abdel Meguid

Born in 1946, Ibrahim Abdel Meguid is an Egyptian writer from Alexandria. He has combined critical and creative writing throughout his literary career, and is the author of numerous novels and short-story collections. He was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 1997 for his novel The Other Place.

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