AUC Fiction - Distributed Titles

City of Love and Ashes


by Yusuf Idris

Cairo, January 1952. Hamza is a committed young radical struggling to end British occupation. Fawziya is a woman supporting the cause. And among the ashes of the city love may grow.

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Price: £6.40

The Mountain of Green Tea


by Yahya Taher Abdullah

With poetic vividness, Yahya Taher Abdullah’s The Mountain of Green Tea tells of the harsh life of the peasants of Upper Egypt, or of Cairo seen through the eyes of peasants who have migrated there in search of work.

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Price: £5.59

The Collar and the Bracelet


by Yahya Taher Abdullah

Set in the Upper Egyptian village of Karnak against the backdrop of the British campaigns in Sudan, the Second World War, and the war in Palestine, The Collar and the Bracelet tells the saga of the Bishari family—a family ripped apart by the violence of history, the dark conduits of human desire, and the rigid social conventions of village life.

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Price: £11.99

The Crane


by Halim Barakat Translated by Bassam Frangieh and Ro

In The Crane, the renowned Syro-Lebanese author Halim Barakat creates a narrator who looks back wistfully on his life.

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Price: £12.79

The Dreams


by Naguib Mahfouz Translated by Raymond Stock

In this collection of his newest and shortest short stories, the Egyptian Nobel literature laureate has reduced the fictional form to its most essential level, while retaining his justifiably famous mastery of the storytelling art.

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Price: £11.99