Taxi (English edition) - Brossura

Al Khamissi, Khaled

Brossura

ISBN 10: 999217871X ISBN 13: 9789992178713

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, 2011

Riassunto

A best-selling modern masterpiece in the author's home country of Egypt, Taxi consists of fifty-eight fictional monologues with Cairo taxi drivers that have been recreated from the author's own experience, taking the reader on a roller-coaster of emotions as bumpy and noisy as the city's potholed and chaotic streets. Described as an urban sociology, an ethnography, a classic of oral history - and a work of poetry in motion - it tells Herculean tales of the struggle for survival and dignity among Greater Cairo's 80,000 cab drivers.

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Recensione:

A frank, funny and sometimes heartbreaking blast of jokes, anecdotes and revelations (The Independent, UK)

'Prior to Egypt's revolution, Taxi would have told you more than a thousand
Twitter feeds about what was coming down the road beside the Nile

(Boyd Tonkin, The Independent, UK)

This democratic cacophony transforms into a fresh and fast crash course not just in the backdrop to the Arab spring, but in all aspects of contemporary North African culture and people, from ever-present convenience foods to extreme hunger, and from economic migrants to avant-garde artists. We are all the richer for it. (Chris Ross The Guardian)

A book to make you feel guilty you ever tried to bargain down a cab fare in any poor country (Chicago Tribune, US)

The novel that predicted the uprising (France 24)

'Taxi's brilliance is that it captures the point at which cabs cease to be just a means of transportation' (Foreign Policy Magazine)

Illustrates the revolution (Le Monde, France)

The new literary star from the Arab world (Deutsche Welle, Germany)

The ultimate book on the Egyptian Revolution (Süddeutsche Zeitung,Germany)

Unlike some of the bleaker tales from the region, Taxi is a whirlwind of jokes and anecdotes and a commentary on the diversity, the hopes and the struggles that permeated this immense and teeming city in the years leading up to the protests of 2011. (Lin Noueihed NPR (National Public Radio) USA)

Descrizione del libro:

A best-selling modern masterpiece set in the author's home country of Egypt.

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• Editore: Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 999217871X
• ISBN 13: 9789992178713
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 192