03263oam 22005534a 450 991096822160332120240123201609.097808156082640815608268(CKB)3710000000439968(EBL)3440581(SSID)ssj0001534288(PQKBManifestationID)11873087(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001534288(PQKBWorkID)11494529(PQKB)10343051(MiAaPQ)EBC3440581(OCoLC)1132664760(MdBmJHUP)muse76458(Perlego)973460(EXLCZ)99371000000043996820060501d2006 uy fengur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThieves in retirement a novel /Hamdi Abu Golayyel ; translated from the Arabic by Marilyn BoothFirst edition.Syracuse :Syracuse University Press,2006.1 online resource (xviii, 126 pages)Middle Eastern literature in translationDescription based upon print version of record.9780815608523 0815608527 Front ; Contents; Translator's Acknowledgments; Introduction; Thieves in RetirementHamdi Abu Golayyel offers a striking portrait of a marginalized Egyptian community, bringing to life the absurd and tragic characters who occupy the margins of society while paying tribute to a historical Cairene neighborhood. By turns comic, reverential, beautiful, and tawdry, the novel reveals a social climate where ruthlessness and goodness seem almost indistinguishable and humanity is on display in all its rich variety. The novelist's distinctive vision of Egypt's various postmonarchy political regimes and ideologies shapes this dark comedy of human relations and underground pursuits in late twentieth-century Egypt. Through intricate levels of allegory, puns, and double meanings, Abu Golayyel effectively plays on the rhetoric associated with the nationalist government of Gamal Abdel Nasser, including the post-Nasser turn toward international capitalism with its a consumer-oriented economy-and movement away from the workers' rights orientation of the 1960s. This novel represents a new voice and a new stage in contemporary Arabic literature, as it criticizes official ideologies, whether socialist, capitalist, or Islamist. Abu Golayyel's cast of memorable characters embodies the arbitrariness of life and the search for purpose and dignity in a social milieu that offers little of either. Marilyn Booth's translation fluently renders the novel's delicate levels of diction and rhythm, making this brilliant Egyptian novel available to a much-deserved wider audience. Middle East literature in translation.Arabic fiction21st centuryTranslations into EnglishArabic fiction892.736Abū Julayyil Ḥamdī1803824Booth Marilyn691165MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910968221603321Thieves in retirement4351554UNINA01691oas 2200697 a 450 991013890220332120251105213014.02090-3499(DE-599)ZDB2621438-6(OCoLC)703485400(CONSER) 2011243625(CKB)2430000000038111(EXLCZ)99243000000003811120110223b20112024 uy engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAdvances in preventive medicineCairo Hindawi Pub. Corp1 online resourceRefereed/Peer-reviewed2090-3480 Adv Prev MedMedicine, PreventivePeriodicalsPreventive MedicineMedicine, Preventivefast(OCoLC)fst01015324Periodical.Periodicals.Fulltext.Internet Resources.Periodicals.fastMedicine, PreventivePreventive Medicine.Medicine, Preventive.SCBSCBNLMOCLCQOCLCFCUSOCLCOOCLCQOCLCOOCLCQDLCAU@OCLCOOCLCAVT2UKMGBOCLCQBWNOCLCQNLMOCLCQJOURNAL9910138902203321Advances in preventive medicine2017117UNINA