| Chicago Contributor(s): Al Aswany, Alaa (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061452580 ISBN-13: 9780061452581 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Romance - General - Fiction | Cultural Heritage |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: P.S. |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 5.4" W x 8" (0.58 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Arabic - Locality - Chicago, Illinois - Geographic Orientation - Illinois - Cultural Region - Midwest - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From Alaa Al Aswany, the author of the highly-acclaimed The Yacoubian Building, comes a story of love, sex, friendship, hatred, and ambition set in the midwestern city with a cast of American and Arab characters achingly human in their desires and needs. Chicago offers an illuminating portrait of America--a complex, often contradictory land in which triumph and failure, opportunity and oppression, licentiousness and tender love, small dramas and big dreams, coexist. |
Contributor Bio(s): Al Aswany, Alaa: - Alaa Al Aswany is the internationally bestselling author of The Yacoubian Building and Chicago. A journalist who writes a controversial opposition column, Al Aswany makes his living as a dentist in Cairo. |