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The City Always Wins

by Omar Robert Hamilton
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The ultimate novel capturing Egypt's 2011 uprising.

Recommended for those interested in political activism and the Arab Spring, this book offers a raw, emotional portrayal of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Through the unique and diverse characters, readers will experience firsthand the hope, passion, disillusionment, and heartbreak of a movement that captivated the world. With its vivid and often violent scenes, intimate details, and powerful prose, The City Always Wins offers an unflinching perspective on the complexities and challenges of political change through the eyes of those who lived it.

  • Betty Trask Prize (2018)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9780571332656
Authors: Omar Robert Hamilton
Publisher: Faber Fiction
Date of Publication: 2017-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.86
(rated by 906 readers)

Description

A debut novel that captures the experience of the Egyptian revolution like no news report couldThe City Always Wins is a novel from the front line of a revolution. Deeply enmeshed in the 2011 uprising in Tahrir Square, Mariam and Khalil move through Cairo’s surging streets and roiling political underground, their lives burning with purpose, their city alive in open revolt, the world watching, listening, as they chart a course into an unknown future. They are―they believe―fighting a new kind of revolution; they are players in a new epic in the making.From the communal highs of night battles against the police to the solitary lows of postrevolutionary exile, Omar Robert Hamilton’s bold debut cuts to the psychological heart of one the key chapters in the twenty-first century. Arrestingly visual, intensely lyrical, uncompromisingly political, and brutal in its poetry, The City Always Wins is a novel not just about Egypt’s revolution, but about a global generation that tried to change the world.
 

The ultimate novel capturing Egypt's 2011 uprising.

Recommended for those interested in political activism and the Arab Spring, this book offers a raw, emotional portrayal of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Through the unique and diverse characters, readers will experience firsthand the hope, passion, disillusionment, and heartbreak of a movement that captivated the world. With its vivid and often violent scenes, intimate details, and powerful prose, The City Always Wins offers an unflinching perspective on the complexities and challenges of political change through the eyes of those who lived it.

  • Betty Trask Prize (2018)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.