AUC Fiction - Distributed Titles

The Long Way Back


by Fuad al-Takarli

The Long Way Back tells the story of four generations of the same family living in an old house in the Bab al-Shaykh district of Baghdad.

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Moon Over Samarqand


by Muhammad Mansi Qandil

A journey through Central Asia and beyond, 'Moon over Samarqand' is the story of one Egyptian's quest for truth. He seeks explanations of his troubled past through a long-lost friend Samarqand and encounters the Uzbekistan of today, yesterday and once upon a time. The novel parallels Uzbekistan and Egypt, showing the many historical and actual connections between Central America and the Arab world. 'Moon over Samarqand' received the 2006 Sawiris Foundation Award for Literature.

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Blue Aubergine


by Miral al-Tahawy Translated by Anthony Calderbank

Blue Aubergine tells the story of a young Egyptian woman, born in 1967, growing up in the wake of Egypt’s defeat of that year, and maturing into womanhood against the social and political upheavals Egypt experienced during the final decades of the twentieth century.

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Price: £5.59

Cairo Modern


by Naguib Mahfouz Translated by William M Hutchins

Mahgub Abd al-Da’im is a scamp who fancies himself a nihilist, a hedonist, an egotist,but his personal vulnerability is soon revealed by a family crisis back home in al-Qanatir, a provincial town on the Nile.

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Price: £12.79

Birds of Amber


by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid Translated by Farouk Abdel Wa

This third entry in Meguid’s trilogy on the fabled city of Alexandria takes as its subject a community of railroad workers who inhabit low income neighborhoods along the city’s Mahmudiya Canal.

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Price: £13.60