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The Buried - An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution (Paperback)
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The Buried - An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution (Paperback)
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A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
"Extraordinary...Sensitive and perceptive, Mr. Hessler is a superb
literary archaeologist, one who handles what he sees with a bit of
wonder that he gets to watch the history of this grand city unfold,
one day at a time." -Wall Street Journal From the acclaimed author
of River Town and Oracle Bones, an intimate excavation of life in
one of the world's oldest civilizations at a time of convulsive
change Drawn by a fascination with Egypt's rich history and
culture, Peter Hessler moved with his wife and twin daughters to
Cairo in 2011. He wanted to learn Arabic, explore Cairo's
neighborhoods, and visit the legendary archaeological digs of Upper
Egypt. After his years of covering China for The New Yorker,
friends warned him Egypt would be a much quieter place. But not
long before he arrived, the Egyptian Arab Spring had begun, and now
the country was in chaos. In the midst of the revolution, Hessler
often traveled to digs at Amarna and Abydos, where locals live
beside the tombs of kings and courtiers, a landscape that they call
simply al-Madfuna: "the Buried." He and his wife set out to master
Arabic, striking up a friendship with their instructor, a cynical
political sophisticate. They also befriended Peter's translator, a
gay man struggling to find happiness in Egypt's homophobic culture.
A different kind of friendship was formed with the neighborhood
garbage collector, an illiterate but highly perceptive man named
Sayyid, whose access to the trash of Cairo would be its own kind of
archaeological excavation. Hessler also met a family of Chinese
small-business owners in the lingerie trade; their view of the
country proved a bracing counterpoint to the West's conventional
wisdom. Through the lives of these and other ordinary people in a
time of tragedy and heartache, and through connections between
contemporary Egypt and its ancient past, Hessler creates an
astonishing portrait of a country and its people. What emerges is a
book of uncompromising intelligence and humanity--the story of a
land in which a weak state has collapsed but its underlying society
remains in many ways painfully the same. A worthy successor to
works like Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon and Bruce
Chatwin's The Songlines, The Buried bids fair to be recognized as
one of the great books of our time.
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