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A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me: A Novel (Hoopoe Fiction) by Youssef Fadel, Alexander E. Elinson is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p><b>A powerful and poetic masterpiece where ordinary people’s dreams play out in a city plagued by government exploitation and crime<p>Shortlisted for the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation</b><p>As his wife delivers their child in the next room, a man wakes from the nightmare of a teenage girl’s body lying beneath his bed. In this twilight before birth, Fadel’s epic novel catches us in the confusion between exaltation and despair. The girl, Farah, once dreamed of being a singer in Casablanca, a city standing in the shadow of the tallest minaret in the world. <p>Illuminating the aspirations of those just struggling to make a living, <i>A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me</i> is a tour-de-force, a novel of power plays and petty jealousies, deceit and corruption, love and loss, written with Fadel’s masterful, narrative control and searing, historical insight.

Who reads A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me: A Novel (Hoopoe Fiction)?

Author

Youssef Fadel, Alexander E. Elinson

Publisher

Hoopoe, an imprint of the American University in Cairo Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9789774169373

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Thriller, Thrillers