AUC Fiction - Distributed Titles

The Scents of Marie-Claire


by Habib Selmi

Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2009. Seductive, erotic and bubbling with the most minute details, The Scents of Marie-Claire, set in Paris, tells of the extraordinary relationship between the Tunisian-born narrator and the French Marie-Claire.

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Price: £6.99

The Theocrat

A Modern Arabic Novel from Morocco
by Bensalem Himmich

The Theocrat takes as its subject one of Arab and Islamic history’s most perplexing figures, al-Hakim bi-Amr Illah (“the ruler by order of God”), the Fatimid caliph who ruled Egypt during the tenth century and whose career was a direct reflection of both the tensions within the Islamic dominions as a whole and of the conflicts within his own mind.

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Price: £6.40

Like a Summer Never to be Repeated


by Mohammed Berrada

'Like a Summer Never to be Repeated' is a fascinating and highly experimental story, set in Cairo and based loosely around the author's own experiences in Egypt as a student and visiting intellectual.

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Price: £13.60

Nile Sparrows


by Ibrahim Aslan

Set in the Nile-side neighbourhood of Warraq, Aslan’s novel chronicles the daily rhythm of the life of rural migrants to Cairo and their complex webs of familial and neighborly relations over half a century. New paperback edition available from June 2009.

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Price: £11.99

Muntaha


by Hala El Badry

Set in the sleepy Egyptian village of Muntaha during the late 1940s, this novel paints a vibrant portrait of rural life in Egypt. The new paperback edition will be available from April 2009.

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Price: £12.79