{"product_id":"if-an-egyptian-cannot-speak-english-paperback","title":"If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNoor Naga\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2022 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the 2023 PEN\/Jean Stein Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize, a lush experimental novel about love as a weapon of empire. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living in a rooftop shack. She is a nostalgic daughter of immigrants \"returning\" to a country she's never been to before, teaching English and living in a light-filled flat with balconies on all sides. They fall in love and he moves in. But soon their desire--for one another, for the selves they want to become through the other--takes a violent turn that neither of them expected. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA dark romance exposing the gaps in American identity politics, especially when exported overseas, \u003ci\u003eIf an Egyptian Cannot Speak English \u003c\/i\u003eis at once ravishing and wry, scathing and tender. Told in alternating perspectives, Noor Naga's experimental debut examines the ethics of fetishizing the homeland and punishing the beloved . . . and vice versa. In our globalized twenty-first-century world, what are the new faces (and races) of empire? When the revolution fails, how long can someone survive the disappointment? Who suffers and, more crucially, who gets to tell about it?\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 8.32 x 5.64 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 12, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44318121984102,"sku":"9781644450819","price":24.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/b1E5TGZISkh6Yyt1VmEvRCtZQTFRQT09.webp?v=1768081879","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/if-an-egyptian-cannot-speak-english-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}