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020 9781649030764|q(paperback)
020 |z9781649030788|q(adobe pdf)
020 |z9781649030771|q(epub)
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050 00 PJ7914.S475|bS2913 2021
100 1 ʻAshmāwī, Ashraf
240 10 سيدة الزمالك.|lEnglish.
245 14 The lady of Zamalek /|cAshraf El-Ashmawi ; translated by
Peter Daniel.
260 Cairo ;|aNew York :|bHoopoe,|c2021.
300 393 p. |c21 cm.
500 KH-AUL-8.
520 "It was in the spring of 1927 that Cairo's attention was
captured by the shocking murder of prominent businessman
Solomon Cicurel in his Nile-side villa in the upscale
Zamalek district. It was a burglary that went wrong and
four culprits were soon arrested. Their trial was
concluded swiftly, their punishments were decisive, and
society breathed a sigh of relief. In Ashraf El-Ashmawi's
telling, however, there was a fifth accomplice, Abbas, who
escaped back to his home in the countryside to lay low
until the murder trial blew over. He had not left empty-
handed and had kept some documents from Cicurel's villa,
ones that he realized would lead him to a hidden safe.
Abbas hatched a plan to return to the capital, find the
safe, and make his fortune. The first step was to place
his sister Zeinab with Cicurel's widow, Paula. A web of
twists and intrigues run through the life of Abbas, in
what unfolds as a tale of modern Egypt-taking in the
Second World War, the 1952 revolution and the rise of
Gamal Abdel-Nasser, the 1967 war, the Sadat and Mubarak
eras-from the 1920s through to 1990"--|cProvided by
publisher.
600 10 Cicurel, Solomon,|d1881-1927|vFiction
650 0 Murder|zEgypt|zCairo|vFiction
650 0 Burglars|xEgypt|zCairo|vFiction
651 0 Egypt|xPolitics and government|y20th century|vFiction
700 1 Daniel, Peter