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If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

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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.

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PUBLISHED
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2022]
Year Published: 2022
Description: 186 pages ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781644450819
164445081X

SUBJECTS
Egyptian American women -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Egyptians -- Fiction.
Language teachers -- Fiction.
Photographers -- Fiction.
Addicts -- Fiction.
Cairo (Egypt) -- Fiction.
Romance fiction.