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Lädt ... Chicago (Original 2006; 2011. Auflage)von Alaa Al Aswany (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. "A medley of Egyptian and American lives collides on the campus of the University of Illinois Medical School 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 an moving target for intolerance; a veiled Ph.D. 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 'honor'; 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 an unflinching examination of contemporary Egyptian lives." --jacket This novel is about a group of people in and around the medical center at the University of Illinois, many of them, but not all, Egyptian - their troubles, their joys. In some ways, it suggests that as an immigrant you carry your country of origin with you and never quite escape it - whether you spend your live yearning to go back or trying to construct something completely other than where you are from. The individual stories lines are interesting, some even compelling, but nothing is very surprising. I successfully predicted some character trajectories within the first page or two and there was a gun introduced in Chapter 3 which I expect will go off any page now. I can see why Aswany is popular in Egypt - he doesn't hold back with the political commentary and he is very forthright in his critique. I did wonder if he had ever been to Chicago. It was strangely off about the city, as if he had used an out of date guide book. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Post-September 11 Chicago becomes the site of a cultural collision of Egyptian and American lives, including a Ph.D. candidate whose traditional upbringing is challenged by her American experiences, and an émigré whose western values are countered by questions about his daughter's honor. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)892.737Literature Literature of other languages Middle Eastern languages Arabic (Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan) Arabic fiction 2000–Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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