Temple bar /
Bahaa Abdelmegid ; translated by Jonathan Wright.
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| Summary: | Dublin is alien territory for young and impoverished Egyptian academic Moataz, who is preparing a PhD on Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Moataz has enough problems with his family's high expectations and the unrequited, idealized love that he left behind in Cairo. Now he has to deal with cantankerous landlords, inscrutable local women, the Irish judiciary, haunted seminaries, and cold winter nights selling flowers on the banks of the Liffey to make ends meet. His own personal demons travel with him, especially the clash between his sexual desires and his reluctance to become emotionally entangled wi. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Arabic English translated from Arabic. |
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Cairo :
American University in Cairo Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Modern Arabic literature
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| Notes: | First published in Arabic in 2011 by Dar Merit as Khammarat al-ma'bad. Physical description: 212 pages ; 23 cm. more |
| ISBN: | 9789774166600 (paperback) 9774166604 (paperback) |
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