Basma Abdel Aziz The queue : 9781612195162

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Автор: Basma Abdel Aziz (Басма Абд-аль-Азир)
Название: The queue :
Перевод названия: Басма Абд-аль-Азир: Очередь
ISBN: 9781612195162
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1612195164
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 224
Вес: 0.37 кг.
Дата издания: 24.05.2016
Язык: English
Размер: 210 x 150 x 22
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: The Queue ... has drawn comparisons to Western classics like George Orwells 1984 and The Trial by Franz Kafka. It represents a new wave of dystopian and surrealist fiction from Middle Eastern writers who are grappling with the chaotic aftermath and stinging disappointments of the Arab Spring. -- The New York Times
Winner of the English PEN Translation Award

In a surreal, but familiar, vision of modern day Egypt, a centralized authority known as the Gate has risen to power in the aftermath of the Disgraceful Events, a failed popular uprising. Citizens are required to obtain permission from the Gate in order to take care of even the most basic of their daily affairs, yet the Gate never opens, and the queue in front of it grows longer.
Citizens from all walks of life mix and wait in the sun: a revolutionary journalist, a sheikh, a poor woman concerned for her daughters health, and even the brother of a security officer killed in clashes with protestors. Among them is Yehia, a man who was shot during the Events and is waiting for permission from the Gate to remove a bullet that remains lodged in his pelvis. Yehias health steadily declines, yet at every turn, officials refuse to assist him, actively denying the very existence of the bullet.
Ultimately it is Tarek, the principled doctor tending to Yehias case, who must decide whether to follow protocol as he has always done, or to disobey the law and risk his career to operate on Yehia and save his life.
Written with dark, subtle humor, The Queue describes the sinister nature of authoritarianism, and illuminates the way that absolute authority manipulates information, mobilizes others in service to it, and fails to uphold the rights of even those faithful to it.

The queue :, Basma Abdel Aziz