{"product_id":"chronicle-of-a-last-summer-a-novel-of-egypt","title":"Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt","description":"\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA young Egyptian woman recounts her personal and political coming of age in this brilliant debut novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCairo, 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 mutter darkly about the newly-appointed President Mubarak. Everyone talks with melancholy about the past. People disappear overnight. Her own father has left, too—why, or to where, no one will say. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe meet her across three decades, from youth to adulthood: As a six-year old absorbing the world around her, filled with questions she can’t ask; as a college student and aspiring filmmaker pre-occupied with love, language, and the repression that surrounds her; and then later, in the turbulent aftermath of Mubarak’s overthrow, as a writer exploring her own past. Reunited with her father, she wonders about the silences that have marked and shaped her life.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAt once a mapping of a city in transformation and a story about the shifting realities and fates of a single Egyptian family, Yasmine El Rashidi’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChronicle of a Last Summer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e traces the fine line between survival and complicity, exploring the conscience of a generation raised in silence.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"El’s Books \u0026 More","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43729530847386,"sku":"","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/1280\/4506\/files\/coalsasoe.jpg?v=1689192464","url":"https:\/\/elsbooksandmore.myshopify.com\/products\/chronicle-of-a-last-summer-a-novel-of-egypt","provider":"El’s Books \u0026 More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}