Description |
263 pages ; 21 cm |
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Note |
In English, translated from the Arabic. |
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Translation of: Hirz mikamkim. |
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First published as Hirz mikamkim by Sefsafa Publishing House, Giza, in 2019; second edition by Khan Aljanub, Berlin, in 2021. |
Summary |
"In February 2016, Ahmed Naji was sentenced to two years in prison for "violating public modesty," after an excerpt of his novel Using Life reportedly caused a reader to experience heart palpitations. Naji ultimately served ten months of that sentence, in a group cell block in Cairo's Tora Prison. Rotten Evidence is a chronicle of those months. Through Naji's writing, the world of Egyptian prison comes into vivid focus, with its cigarette-based economy, home-made chess sets, and well-groomed fixers. Naji's storytelling is lively and uncompromising, filled with rare insights into both the mundane and grand questions he confronts. How does one secure a steady supply of fresh vegetables without refrigeration? How does one write and revise a novel in a single notebook? Fight boredom? Build a clothes hanger? Negotiate with the chief of intelligence? And, most crucially, how does one make sense of a senseless oppression: finding oneself in prison for the act of writing fiction. Genuine and defiant, this book stands as a testament to the power of the creative mind, in the face of authoritarian censorship."--Front flap of cover. |
Subject |
Nājī, Aḥmad, 1985-
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Prisons -- Egypt -- Cairo.
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Authorship.
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Censorship.
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Genre |
Autobiographies.
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Added Author |
Halls, Katharine, translator.
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McSweeney's (Firm), publisher.
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Added Title |
Hirz mikamkim. English.
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ISBN |
9781952119835 (paperback) : $20.00 |
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1952119839 (paperback) |
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