Distant Train: A Novel - Middle East Literature In Translation - Ibrahim Abdel Meguid - Books - Syracuse University Press - 9780815608592 - April 26, 2007
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Distant Train: A Novel - Middle East Literature In Translation

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Sheds light on the dreams, customs, and everyday concerns of people living in historic obscurity on the fringe of the glitzy, petrodollar kingdoms of the Middle East. This tale begins on a worksite in Egypt's western desert. In the middle of nowhere, railway men and locals wait in hope for the annual return of a ""distant train.


216 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released April 26, 2007
ISBN13 9780815608592
Publishers Syracuse University Press
Pages 206
Dimensions 168 × 234 × 20 mm   ·   462 g
Translator Aboul-ela, Hosam M.