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The City Always Wins

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The City Always Wins
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Omar Robert Hamilton
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:320
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 140
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780571332656
ClassificationsDewey:823.92
Audience
General
Edition Export - Airside ed

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 3 August 2017
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

'Omar Hamilton brings vividly to life the failed revolution of 2011 on the streets of Cairo, in all its youthful bravery and naive utopianism.' - JM Coetzee The City Always Wins is a remarkable novel from the psychological heart of a revolution. From the communal highs of pitched night battles against the police in Cairo to the solitary lows of defeated exile in New York, Omar Robert Hamilton's debut is a unique immersion into one of the key chapters of the 21st century. Bringing to life the 2011 Egyptian revolution, The City Always Wins conveys with extraordinary intensity all the stages of that place and that time through the lives of its two main characters Mariam and Khalil, ordinary young people caught up in an extraordinary moment. Furthermore, The City Always Wins is a novel not just about Egypt's revolution but about a global generation that tried to change the world. Reminiscent of the writing of Jeet Thayil, Zia Haider Rahma and Nadeem Aslam, Hamilton's prose is arrestingly visual, intensely lyrical and uncompromisingly political. A genuinely exciting new writer, he looks set to become a defining voice of his generation.

Author Biography

Omar Robert Hamilton is an award-winning filmmaker and writer. He has written for the Guardian, the London Review of Books and Guernica. He co-founded the Mosireen media collective in Cairo and the Palestine Festival of Literature. This is his debut novel. www.orhamilton.com