Set against the backdrop of political revolution, The Queue is a chilling debut that evokes orwellian dystopia, kafkaesque surrealism, and a very real vision of life after the Arab Spring.
Klappentext:In an unnamed Middle Eastern city, a centralized authority known as the Gate has risen to power in the aftermath of the Disgraceful Events, a failed popular uprising. Citizens are required to obtain permission from the Gate for even the most basic of their daily affairs, yet the building never opens, and the queue in front of it grows longer and longer. People from all walks of life wait in the sun: a revolutionary journalist, a housekeeper, the cousin of a security officer killed in the clashes with protestors, and a man with injuries the Gate would prefer to keep quiet.
Written with dark, subtle intelligence, The Queue describes the sinister nature of authoritarianism, and illuminates the way that absolute authority manipulates information, mobilizes others in service to it, and fails to uphold the rights of even the faithful.
Über die Autorin / über den Autor:Basma Abdel Aziz is an Egyptian journalist and psychiatrist who treats torture victims at Cairo's Nadeem Center, continuing her work even after the center was raided and closed by Egyptian authorities in February 2016. She has long been a vocal critic of government oppression in Egypt, has published several works of nonfiction (including Beyond Torture and The Temptation of Absolute Power), and earned the nickname "The Rebel" for her outspoken struggle against injustice, torture, and corruption. The Queue is her first book translated into English. She lives in Cairo.
Elisabeth Jaquette is a translator from the Arabic. She lived in Cairo from 2007 to 2013, and currently lives in the United States.
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