Review of Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt by Yasmine El Rashid
Review of Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt by Yasmine El Rashid
About Chronicle of a Last Summer
Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother’s phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom window, watching the three state-sanctioned TV stations with the volume off, daydreaming about other lives. Underlying this claustrophobic routine is mystery and loss. Relatives…
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