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Author Ghīṭānī, Jamāl, author

Title Traces : a memoir / Gamal Al-Ghitani ; translated by Nader K. Uthman
Published Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (239 pages)
Series Composition books ; no 5
Composition books ; no 5
Summary "One of Egypt's greatest contemporary writers reflects on life and love This haunting memoir, written ten years before Ghitani's death, weaves together a series of vignettes in a style that mimics the uneven, discontinuous nature of memory itself. These fragments are summoned from across the span of a singular lifetime. We read of his childhood adventures, his erotic awakenings, his time as a political prisoner, and his reports from the battlefront in Iraq and the corridors of power in Syria. Vivid passages capture fleeting glances of strangers through car windows, flavors and scents of delicacies savored, dreams and sorrows of neighbors in the apartment blocks of Cairo before Nasser, as well as chance conversations at points of transit, in cafés, on elegant streets, and with unnamed paramours. These memories, and Ghitani's musings on memory's own finitude and mutability, make Traces both a memoir and a meditation on memory itself, in all its inscrutable workings and inevitable betrayals."--Publisher
Notes Originally published in Arabic in 2005
Translated from the Arabic
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest, viewed May 20, 2021)
Subject Ghīṭānī, Jamāl.
SUBJECT Ghīṭānī, Jamāl fast
Subject Novelists, Arab -- 20th century -- Biography
Novelists, Arab
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
Author Uthman, Nader K., translator
ISBN 1617979759
9781617979750
Other Titles Dafātir al-tadwīn : Dafātir al-khamis English