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Author Naga, Noor, author.

Title If an Egyptian cannot speak English : a novel / Noor Naga.

Publication Info. Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2022]
©2022
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2193310~S1
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 95th Street Adult Fiction  F NAGA    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Fiction  F NAGA    AVAILABLE
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Description 186 pages ; 21 cm
Note "Winner of the Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize""--Cover.
Summary In 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.
Subject Egyptian American women -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Egyptians -- Fiction.
Language teachers -- Fiction.
Photographers -- Fiction.
Addicts -- Fiction.
Cairo (Egypt) -- Fiction.
Genre Romance fiction.
ISBN 9781644450819 (paperback)
164445081X (paperback)
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