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Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison by Naji, Ahmed; Halls, Katharine is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist In February 2016, Ahmed Naji was sentenced to two years in prison for "violating public modesty," after an excerpt of his novel Using Life reportedly caused a reader to experience heart palpitations. Naji ultimately served ten months of that sentence, in a group cell block in Cairo's Tora Prison. Rotten Evidence is a chronicle of those months. Through Naji's writing, the world of Egyptian prison comes into vivid focus, with its cigarette-based economy, home-made chess sets, and well-groomed fixers. Naji's storytelling is lively and uncompromising, filled with rare insights into both the mundane and grand questions he confronts. How does one secure a steady supply of fresh vegetables without refrigeration? How does one write and revise a novel in a single notebook? Fight boredom? Build a clothes hanger? Negotiate with the chief of intelligence? And, most crucially, how does one make sense of a senseless oppression: finding oneself in prison for the act of writing fiction. Genuine and defiant, this book stands as a testament to the power of the creative mind, in the face of authoritarian censorship.

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Author

Naji, Ahmed; Halls, Katharine

Publisher

Baker & Taylor Publisher Services (BTPS)

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781952119842

Category

nonfiction