A new paperback edition of the novel set against the Cairo 'bread riots' of 1977 from the author of Nile Sparrows
Ibrahim Aslan was born in Tanta in Egypt's Nile Delta in 1937 and is culture editor in the Cairo bureau of the London-based daily newspaper al-Hayat. He published his first collection of short stories in 1971. The Heron, his first novel, was published in Arabic in 1983. He is also the author of Nile Sparrows (AUC Press, 2004). Elliott Colla teaches comparative literature at Brown University. He is the author of Conflicted Antiquities and the translator of Poor by Idris Ali (AUC Press, 2007) and Gold Dust by Ibrahim al-Koni (AUC Press, 2008).
