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Like a Summer Never to Be Repeated

Like a Summer Never to Be Repeated

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Hardback (31 Dec 1999)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Like a Summer Never to Be Repeated is a fascinating and highly experimental story based loosely around the author's own experiences in Egypt as a Moroccan student and visiting intellectual. In Cairo the narrator, Hammad, takes us on a deeply personal journey of discovery from the heady days of the 1950s and 1960s, with all the optimism and excitement surrounding Moroccan independence, Suez, and Abdel Nasser, up to the 1990s and the time of writing, revealing an individual intensely concerned with Arab life and culture. Meanwhile, his regular visits to Cairo allow us to watch a culture in transition over four decades. Exploring themes of change, the role of culture in society, memory, and writing, in a text that combines narrative fiction with literary criticism, philosophical musings, and quotation, Like a Summer Never to Be Repeated is among the most innovative works of modern Arabic literature and a testimony to Mohammed Berrada's position as a leading pioneer.

Book information

ISBN: 9789774162466
Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
Imprint: The American University in Cairo Press
Pub date:
Edition: Hardback original
DEWEY: 892.736
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 176
Weight: 383g
Height: 206mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 18mm