Mohlo by se vám také líbit

Více informací o knize Private Pleasures

• Parametry knihy
• Anotace
• Oblíbené z jiného soudku

Nákupem získáte 52 bodů

Anotace knihy

Private Pleasures describes the three-day sex, drink, and drug binge of a thirty-something newsreader in the back streets and crumbling apartments of his native Giza, that pullulating mass of humanity that, like an ugly sister, sits opposite Cairo on the Nile's west bank. Pursued by an unshakable sense of impending doom that is only partly attributable to fear of retribution at the hands of a sadistic police officer with whose wife he is conducting a frenzied affair, the narrator observes, with fascinated horror, his own stumbling progress through a world of menace and wonder inhabited by philosophical prostitutes, nightmarish butchers, serene Quran-readers, pious family members, religious con-men, autistic tissue-sellers, and others. Milleresque in its treatment of sex, the novel captures the essence of the phantasmagoric world of the Egyptian mega-city, disintegrating under the pressures of its home-grown horrors while pining for the sublime.

Parametry knihy

Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Plný název: Private Pleasures
• Autor: Hamdy el-Gazzar
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 224
• EAN: 9789774166013
• ISBN: 9774166019
• ID: 02199589
• Nakladatelství: The American University in Cairo Press
• Hmotnost: 334 g
• Rozměry: 151 × 226 × 12 mm
• Datum vydání: 30. September 2013

Oblíbené z jiného soudku

---

---

---