Completely True Tales of Um Mimi and Sharawi the Adulterer

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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When a seventeen-year-old flees his violent father and heads to Cairo to chase his dream of breaking into the arts, he ends up in a crumbling flat with a mercurial landlady and her volatile son. Set in the early 1990s, The Completely True Tales of Um Mimi and Sharawi the Adulterer is a sharply observed, darkly comic coming-of-age novel about ambition, survival, and the strange intimacies forged by necessity. Longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, this cult-favourite debut by Egyptian screenwriter, journalist, and satirist Belal Fadl appears in English for the first time, in a vivid translation by Osama Hammad.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-12-15
Mått129 x 198 x 20 mm
Vikt228 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
FörlagDar Arab
ISBN9781788711142
ÖversättareOsama Hammad
UtmärkelserLong-listed for International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2022 (Egypt)

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Belal Fadl (b. 1974, Cairo) is one of Egypt’s most influential contemporary writers. A journalist, screenwriter, and satirist, he began his career at Rose al-Yūsuf and co-founded the landmark newspaper Al-Dustour. His bold political columns for Al-Masry Al-Youm and Al-Shorouk gained a wide following and often sparked national debate. Fadl has written more than 18 feature films—many of them box-office hits—and is widely credited with shaping a new wave of Egyptian popular cinema. The Completely True Tales of Um Mimi and Sharawi the Adulterer is his first novel to appear in English. He lives and writes in New York.