![]() ![]() Told in alternating perspectives, Noor Naga's experimental debut examines the ethics of fetishizing the homeland and punishing the beloved. 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.Ī dark romance exposing the gaps in American identity politics, especially when exported overseas, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English is at once ravishing and wry, scathing and tender. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 13 If I speak in the tongues a of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ![]() 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. 1 Corinthians 13New International Version. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living in a rooftop shack. 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. Winner of the Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize, a lush experimental novel about love as a weapon of empire. 4.5 stars I think this is a really powerful novel that should be read by so many, especially teens. Shortlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Please limit comments to 30 seconds or about 100 words and give. Shortlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize 16 hours ago &0183 &32 Speak Out allows readers to comment on the issues of the day. Winner of the 2022 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize ![]()
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