Mansoura Ez Eldin

Maryam's Maze

Klappentext:

A young woman named Maryam awakes from a disturbing, violent dream to find herself in a bed in a strange apartment in Cairo, rather than in her dormitory room where she fell asleep. With this enigmatic scene, Mansoura Ez Eldin begins an eerie tale of a woman cut loose from her world and struggling to reconnect the tenuous links to her former life. On her own in the city, she can find no way to contact her former rommate, who has vanished, or her boyfriend, a journalist who seems to have left no trace of his existence. His phone is out of service, his employer has no record of him, and even his byline has disappeared from old newspapers she has kept. From Cairo, the narrative flashes back to the country villa of Maryams's wealthy family, where grief and madness lurked between the cracks of her childhood. Maryam's ever more desperate attempts to recapture the familiar world she once inhabited reveal a Gothic tale reminiscent of Poe or Palahniuk. A haunting allegory with a surpising ending, Maryam's Maze is an imaginative first novel by one of the most promising members of Egypt's vibrant new literary generation.

Über die Autorin / über den Autor:

Mansoura Ez Eldin was born in the Egyptian Delta and graduated with a degree in journalism from Cairo University in 1998. She has published a collection of short stories and presently runs the book review section of the literary magazine Akhbar al-adab. Maryams' Maze is her first novel.

Paul Starkey is head of the Arabic Department at the University of Durham, England. He has published widely in the field of modern Arabic literature and was coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature (1998). He has translated novels by Rashid al-Daif, Turki al-Hamad, and Edwar al-Kharrrat (Stones of Bobello, AUC Press, 2005).

Preis: CHF 19.90
Sprache: Englisch (aus dem Arabischen von Paul Starkey)
Art: Broschiertes Buch
Erschienen: 2009 (2004)
Verlag: AUC Press
ISBN: 978-977-416-308-1
Masse: 106 S.

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