Tom Hanks Book Released in Cairo International Book Fair

After 3 years since issuing the first story collection of the famous Hollywood star "Tom Hanks", the Karama House for Printing and Publishing in Egypt was able to obtain the rights to translate and publish it in the Arabic language.

The Publishing House announced the release of the new version at the 51st Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF51).

[caption id="attachment_102457" align="alignright" width="198"] the original book[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_102458" align="alignright" width="190"] the Arabic edition[/caption]

The collection "Uncommon Type" achieved huge sales as it became No. 1 on the famous Amazon website and is now translated into Arabic by Magdy Abdel Maged Khater.

Hanks has great writing experience; he is a renowned editor at the New Yorker and New York Times.

he depends in his stories on history and imagination, some of his stories revolve in the years after the Second World War, while some revolve around time travel and space trips.

His more human stories tell about an immigrant from Eastern Europe arriving in New York City after the civil war in his country tore his family And his life.

The main plots revolve around a woman trying to cope with life in a new neighborhood after her porce; a veteran who participated in the Second World War deals with his physical and emotional scars; a columnist in a small town newspaper records his antique ideas about the contemporary world and four friends travelling to the moon and return aboard a spacecraft they created in the backyard.

These are some of the plots of the most famous American actor, Tom Hanks. Here we will see Hanks examining carefully, fondly and lightly the shadow and wisdom of the human condition with all its imperfections.