The Book of Cairo: A City in Short Fiction is written in different ten voices by ten writers.
They decided to write about Egypt despite the danger they would have faced due to the problematic issues Egypt had gone through.
The book reflects life in Egypt using satire, surrealism, intimacy and a sense of humor through separate short stories. Each story is worth to enjoy reading on its own.
The opening story reflects Cairo’s citizens during a busy morning humorously.
Some stories are funny and happy while others are tragic and heart breaking.
One of the stories include a police officer searching for truth and tortures one last suspect in one of the most important assignment of his career.
Another story focuses on a woman who confesses her love to a masked man in a video rental shop.
The book has been edited by Ralph Cormack, a translator and modern Arabic literature PhD student .
Cormack worked as a translator for Egyptian playwright Ali Salem as well as running his own Arabic translation blog.
The work is translated by Adam Talib, Raphael Cohen, Basma Ghalayini, Thoraya El-Rayyes, Raph Cormack. In addition to Andrew Leber, Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp, Elisabeth Jaquette, Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Yasmine Seale.
To order your copy, visit: https://www.amazon.com/Book-Cairo-Short-Fiction-Reading/dp/1910974250
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