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Cell Block Five

Fadil AzzawiProfessor Philosophy and Religion Department William M Hutchins

出版	American University in Cairo Press, 2014-03-13
主題	FICTION / GeneralLITERARY CRITICISM / African
ISBN	13064925489781306492546
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=9D-1oQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Private Pleasures describes the three-day sex, drink, and drug binge of a thirty-something newsreader in the back streets and crumbling apartments of his native Giza, that pullulating mass of humanity that, like an ugly sister, sits opposite Cairo on the Niles west bank.Pursued by an unshakable sense of impending doom that is only partly attributable to fear of retribution at the hands of a sadistic police officer with whose wife he is conducting a frenzied affair, the narrator observes, with fascinated horror, his own stumbling progress through a world of menace and wonder inhabited by philosophical prostitutes, nightmarish butchers, serene Quran-readers, pious family members, religious con-men, autistic tissue-sellers, and others. Milleresque in its treatment of sex, the novel captures the essence of the phantasmagoric world of the Egyptian mega-city, disintegrating under the pressures of its home-grown horrors while pining for the sublime.