The Book of Cairo: A City in Short Fiction, Paperback - Raph Cormack

DescriptionA corrupt police officer trawls the streets of Cairo on the most important assignment of his career: the answer to the truth of all exis...

DescriptionNestled on the confluence of the Blue and White Niles, the city of Khartoum has, for two centuries, been a focal point for both imperial...

DescriptionBirmingham is a writer's city with a long tradition of distinctive literary subcultures. Long-established novelists such as David Lodge ...

DescriptionTbilisi is the largest city and capital of Georgia, with a population of more than 1.5 million people. Situated at the boundary between ...

Bringing together fiction from celebrated writers, The Book of Barcelona is an anthology of short stories charting the social and and cultural chan...

Bringing together fiction from some of the city's most celebrated writers, The Book of Liverpool traces the unique contours that decades of social ...

This anthology brings together ten short stories that go beyond the postcards and snapshots, and introduce us to real residents of Rio - young danc...

Iceland is a land of stories; from the epic sagas of its mythic past, to its claim today of being home to more writers than anywhere in the world. ...

DescriptionA city of stories--short, fragmented, amorphous, and at times contradictory--Tehran is an impossible tale to tell. For the capital city ...

DescriptionRiga may be over 800 years old as a city, but its status as capital of an independent Latvia is only a century old, with half of that ti...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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Comma Press's popular 'Reading the City' series goes North East in this book of short stories exploring the history and variety of Newcastle-upon-T...

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Bringing together fiction from celebrated writers, The Book of Venice is an anthology of short stories charting the social and and cultural change ...

DescriptionThe stories gathered in this anthology reflect the many complex challenges Havana's citizens have had to endure as a result of their cou...

The fascinating story of the women of Cairo's decadent interwar nightlife and entertainment industry, which celebrates these feminist cultural icon...

Available in English for the first time, this rediscovered classic which Naguib Mahfouz called "exceptional, " tells a story of fathers and sons, s...

An insider's account of the drama of Muslim women's lives in Egypt

Robert Clifford is in Cairo to present his latest film fora festival prize. It has taken seven gruelling years ofhis life to make and is definitely...

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Reducere. WOMAN OF CAIROHart Muldoon had been a "noble O.S.S. boy" in the fight against the Nazis, but now he is at loose ends. Ready to leave Europe and hea...

The first biography of a Scottish socialite who in 1930s Cairo founded a charity to rescue British war horses which lives on to this day as the Bro...

Short story writing in Egypt was still in its infancy when Denys Johnson-Davies, described by Edward Said as the leading Arabic-English translator ...

Reducere. My Gaza offers a startling perspective on contemporary Gaza. Photographer Jehad al-Saftawi documents his life there up until his escape, in 2016. H...

DescriptionLondon: A City in Pictures forms a tour of the city s historic streets of medieval and classical architecture, sumptuous palaces and dis...

One of the world's great cities, Britain's capital has long been an icon not only for the seven million inhabitants who live and work there, but al...

Beginning with the birth of science in the ancient Greeks, the collection contains just about every major textual source in the growth of science, ...

Reducere. Anti-black racism still infects American society. African Americans are more likely than whites to be killed by police, to be pulled over, arrested...

Cairo is a 1, 400-year-old metropolis whose streets are inscribed with sagas, a place where the pressures of life test people's equanimity to the v...

Never before available to readers in the UK, these brilliant and idiosyncratic short stories stand alongside the fictions of Borges, Beckett and Na...

Publisher: ScribnerAuthor(s): Stephen KingNumber of pages: 800Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 145 x 221 x 59Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farm...