TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baradah,Muhammad
AU  - Phillips,Christina
TI  - Like a summer never to be repeated
T2  - Modern Arabic literature
SN  - 9789774162466
AV  - PJ7816.A6538 M5813 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cairo, Egypt, New York, NY, London
PB  - American University in Cairo Press, Eurospan [distributor]
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - fast
KW  - Cairo (Egypt)
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Cairo
N1  - Originally published in Arabic in 1999 as Mithla sayf lan yatakarrar
N2  - "Like a Summer Never to Be Repeated is a fascinating and highly experimental story based loosely around the author's own experiences in Egypt as a Moroccan student and visiting intellectual. In Cairo the narrator, Hammad, takes us on a deeply personal journey of discovery from the heady days of the 1950s and 1960s, with all the optimism and excitement surrounding Moroccan independence, Suez, and Abdel Nasser, up to the 1990s and the time of writing, revealing an individual intensely concerned with Arab life and culture. Meanwhile, his regular visits to Cairo allow us watch a culture in transition over four decades. Exploring themes of change, the role of culture in society, memory, and writing, in a text that combines narrative fiction with literary criticism, philosophical musings, and quotation, Like a Summer Never to Be Repeated is among the most innovative works of modern Arabic literature and a testimony to Mohammed Berrada's position as a leading pioneer of modern Arabic writing."--Jacket
ER  -