Ice
Ibrāhīm, Ṣunʻ Allāh2019
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The year is 1973. An Egyptian historian, Dr. Shukri, pursues a year of non-degree graduate studies in Moscow, the presumed heart of the socialist utopia. Through his eyes, the reader receives a guided tour of the sordid stagnation of Brezhnev-era Soviet life: intra-Soviet ethnic tensions; Russian retirees unable to afford a tin of meat; a trio of drunks splitting a bottle of vodka on the sidewalk; a Kirgiz roommate who brings his Russian girlfriend to live in his four-person dormitory room; black-marketeering Arab embassy officials; liberated but insecure Russian women; and Arab students' debates about the geographically distant October 1973 War.
Main title:
Ice / Ṣunʻ Allāh Ibrāhīm ; translated by Margaret Litvin.
Author:
Ibrāhīm, Ṣunʻ Allāh, authorLitvin, Margaret, 1974-, translator
Imprint:
London : Seagull Books, 2019.
Collation:
256 pages ; 21 cm.
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Notes:
Translated from the Arabic.
ISBN:
9780857426505 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
892.737
Language:
EnglishArabic
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BRN:
1286861
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