In a fictional Gulf country, with its gleaming glass towers and
imported greenery, the routine of day-to-day life is suddenly
interrupted when the national football team qualifies for the World
Cup. The Emir issues an edict ordering all native Emiratis to
travel to France to support the team, leaving the country to the
care of its imported labor. How do they handle such newly found
freedom? As though steered by a perverse blend between Dante and
Scheherazade, we descend layer by layer beneath the facade of
modernity: from the colorful multilingual throngs rejoicing for the
Emirati team to the hierarchies that underpin them, from the
luxurious gardens and swimming pools into the darker secrets of the
bedroom, from the rigid and inhibiting strictures of the present to
a remote age of innocence. Three narratives interweave to form a
tight and thought-provoking examination of the psychology of
control. Drumbeat received the Sawiris Foundation Award for
Egyptian Literature.
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