Friendly fire
Aswānī, ʻAlāʾ, 1957-2009
Book
'Friendly Fire' is a novella and collection of short stories from Alaa Al Aswany, author of 'The Yacoubian Building'. As in that novel, Al Aswany dissects modern Egyptian society and reveals with skill and detachment the hypocrisy, violence and abuse of power characteristic of a world in moral crisis.
Main title:
Friendly fire / Alaa Al Aswany ; translated by Humphrey Davies.
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Imprint:
London : Fourth Estate, 2009.
Collation:
xx, 219 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Translated from the Arabic.
ISBN:
9780007306008 (pbk)
Dewey class:
892.737
Language:
EnglishArabic
BRN:
84213