Sex, money and politics are the driving forces of society in this
new novel from bestselling author Alaa al Aswany. A medley of
Egyptian and American lives collides on the campus of the
University of Illinois Medical Center in a post-9/11 Chicago, and
crises of identity abound. Among the players are an atheistic
anti-establishment American professor of the sixties generation,
whose relationship with a younger African-American woman becomes a
moving target for intolerance; a veiled PhD candidate whose
conviction in the code of her traditional upbringing is shaken by
her exposure to American society; an emigre who has fervently
embraced his new American identity, but who cannot escape his
Egyptian roots when faced with the issue of his daughter's
'honour'; an Egyptian State Security informant who spouts religious
doctrines while hankering after money and power; and a dissident
student poet who comes to America with the sole aim of financing
his literary aspirations, but whose experience in Chicago turns out
to be more than he bargained for. This tightly plotted page-turner
is set far from the downtown Cairo of al Aswany's 'The Yacoubian
Building', but is no less unflinching an examination of
contemporary Egyptian lives.
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