The House of Jasmine

By: Ibrahim Abdel Meguid , Noha Radwan

Language: English

Quality: Like New

Genre: Historical fiction, Politics,

ISBN: 97006415

SKU: BEKIW900045

Pages: 224

Description: On June 13, 1974, Shagara, a low-level employee at the Alexandria shipyard, is charged with taking workers to cheer for the motorcade of Egyptian President Sadat and his guest President Nixon. Instructed to pay each worker half a pound at the end of Nixon’s visit, Shagara pays them half that, spares them the festivities, and pockets the difference. So begins The House of Jasmine, which follows Shagara, a loner who yearns for female companionship, as he traverses the city of Alexandria and tries to parse his feelings toward its changing landscape. With moving candor and refreshing humor, The House of Jasmine is Shagara’s intimate account of life in the Sadat era—the comic and the tragic, the surreal and the absurd.