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Chicago [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
eBook by Alaa Al Aswany
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eBook Category: Mainstream
eBook Description:  The author of the highly acclaimed The Yacoubian Building returns with a story of love, sex, friendship, hatred, and ambition set in Chicago, with a cast of American and Arab characters achingly human in their desires and needs. Egyptian and American lives collide on a college campus in post-9/11 Chicago, and crises of identity abound in this extraordinary and eagerly anticipated new novel from Alaa Al Aswany. Among the players are a sixties-style anti-establishment professor whose relationship with a younger African-American woman becomes a moving target for intolerance; a veiled PhD candidate whose belief in the principles of her traditional upbringing is shaken by her exposure to American society; an emigre whose fervent desire to embrace his American identity is tested when he is faced with the issue of his daughter's "honor"; an Egyptian informant who spouts religious doctrines while hankering after money and power; and a dissident student poet who comes to America to finance his literary aspirations but whose experience in Chicago turns out to be more than he bargained for. Populated by a cast of intriguing, true-to-life characters, Chicago offers an illuminating portrait of America--a complex, often contradictory land in which triumph and failure, opportunity and oppression, licentiousness and tender love, small dramas and big dreams, coexist. Beautifully rendered, Chicago is a powerfully engrossing novel of culture and individuality from one of the most original voices in contemporary world literature.
eBook Publisher: Harper Collins, Inc./HarperCollins e-books
Fictionwise Release Date: October 2008
Available eBook Formats [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF - What's this?]: SECURE MOBIPOCKET FORMAT [342 KB], SECURE MICROSOFT READER FORMAT [654 KB] - Requires Microsoft Reader 2.1.1 for PCs, or Microsoft Reader 2.2.2 on Pocket PC 2002 handheld devices. Some older Pocket PCs can be upgraded. Learn More., SECURE EREADER (RECOMMENDED) FORMAT [316 KB], SECURE ADOBE PDF FORMAT [1.8 MB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [660 KB]
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Microsoft Reader ISBN: 9780061711602
Adobe Reader ISBN: 9780061711589
Mobipocket Reader ISBN: 9780061711596
eReader ISBN: 9780061711619
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