Black Magic : A Modern Arabic Novel Hardback
by Hamdy El-Gazzar
Hardback
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As a fourteen-year-old, Nasir was entranced by his father's gift of a camera, finding in it the means both to possess beauty and to assert himself.
Now a hack working for state television, Nasir meets Fatin, an independent woman older than himself who has escaped a suffocating marriage and is secure in taking what she wants from life.
An affair begins that quickly pulls Nasir into a whirlwind of incandescent erotic and emotional obsession.
In a world of superficiality, materialism, violence, and sexual hysteria seen through the unforgiving lens of his camera, Nasir's life is in limbo.
A yearning for escape and a fear of loneliness propel him into a relationship in which he is at once enraptured and non-committal.
The resolution of this volatile mix lies in a violent confrontation between repulsion and desire.
Black Magic was awarded the prestigious Sawiris Foundation Prize in Egyptian Literature in 2006.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:The American University in Cairo Press
- Publication Date:15/10/2007
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- ISBN:9789774161049
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:The American University in Cairo Press
- Publication Date:15/10/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9789774161049
