Black Magic - An Egyptian Novel

As a fourteen-year-old, Nasir was entranced by his father's gift of a camera, finding in it the means both to possess beauty and to assert himself. Now a hack working for state television, Nasir meets Fatin, an independent woman older than himself who has escaped a suffocating marriage and is secure in taking what she wants from life. An affair begins that quickly pulls Nasir into a whirlwind of incandescent erotic and emotional obsession. In a world of superficiality, materialism, violence, and sexual hysteria seen through the unforgiving lens of his camera, Nasir's life is in limbo. A yearning for escape and a fear of loneliness propel him into a relationship in which he is at once enraptured and non-committal. The resolution of this volatile mix lies in a violent confrontation between repulsion and desire. Black Magic was awarded the prestigious Sawiris Foundation Prize in Egyptian Literature in 2006.

Product details

• Authors: Hamdi El-Gazzar, Hamdy El-Gazzar
• Assisted by: Humphrey Davies (Translation)
• Publisher: American university pr cairo
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 10.12.2013
• EAN: 9789774166266
• ISBN: 978-977-416-626-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 125 mm x 200 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Modern Arabic Literature (Pape; Modern Arabic Literature (Pape
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature