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The Crocodiles : A Novel by Youssef Rakha (2014, ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF)
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- ISBN
- 9781609805715
- Book Title
- Crocodiles : a Novel
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- History, Fiction
- Topic
- Middle East / Egypt (See Also Ancient / Egypt), General, Literary, Political
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Item Weight
- 8.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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Set in Cairo between 1997 and 2011, The Crocodiles is narrated in numbered, poem-like paragraphs, set against the backdrop of a burning Tahrir Square. One man looks back on the magical and explosive period of his life when he and two friends started a secret poetry club amidst a time of drugs, messy love affairs, violent sex and clumsy but determined intellectual bravado and retranslations of the Beat poets. Rakha's masterly novel of growth and change which begins with a suicide and ends with a doomed revolution, forcefully captures 30 years in a living, daring and burning Cairo.
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Publisher
Seven Stories Press
ISBN-10
1609805712
ISBN-13
9781609805715
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201671112
Product Key Features
Book Title
Crocodiles : a Novel
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Middle East / Egypt (See Also Ancient / Egypt), General, Literary, Political
Publication Year
2014
Genre
History, Fiction
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
8.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pj7960.A38t3513 2014
Reviews
"From its opening depiction of a suicide to its final pages, the author paints a disquieting picture of wild young people who can only look forward to a future that remains unresolved."-- Publishers Weekly "Rakha writes with keen authenticity and imbues each scene in this kaleidoscopic, intelligent, and unconventional novel with unparalleled verisimilitude, essential reading for our turbulent times."-- Booklist "What happened in Egypt around its second revolution was a mixture of grandeur and pettiness, of sorrow and mirth, of expectation and despair, of theory and flesh. All of which may be found in The Crocodiles , a novel where reality sheds its veil to reveal its true face -- that of a timeless mythology."-- Amin Maalouf , Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Samarkand "Youssef Rakha's The Crocodiles is a fierce 'post-despair' novel about a generation of poets who were too caught up in themselves to witness the 2011 revolution in Egypt. Or is it? With its numbered paragraphs and beautifully surreal imagery, The Crocodiles is also a long poem, an elegiac wail singing the sad music of a collapsing Egypt. Either way, The Crocodiles --suspicious of sincerity, yet sincere in its certainty that poetry accomplishes nothing--will leave you speechless with the hope that meaning may once again return to words."-- Moustafa Bayoumi , author of How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? "Youssef Rakha has channeled Allen Ginsberg's ferocity and sexual abandon to bring a secret Cairo poetry society called The Crocodiles to life. He's done something daring and not unlike Bolaño in his transforming the Egyptian revolution into a psychedelic fiction thick with romantic round robins, defiant theorizing and an unafraid reckoning with the darkest corners of the Egyptian mentality."-- Lorraine Adams , author of Harbor "I found myself absolutely mesmerized by the poignancy and power created by Rahka's unrestrained sty≤ the heightened moments of beauty, despite their sequestration, are beautifully balletic in their structure and come fast and often."-- Skyler Vanderhoof , The Review Lab, "In poet/journalist Rakha's brilliant novel, set in Cairo between 1997 and 2011, the suicide of an iconic female activist, the founding of the Crocodiles Movement for Secret Egyptian Poetry by a bunch of young idealists, and the birthday of Nayf, who's struggling to translate Allen Ginsberg's "The Lion for Real," all converge on a single June day. Whether Ginsberg's lion is God or love, revolution or fate, the young people here aren't quite ready, though they're full of talk. The numbered paragraphs read like prose poems and flow like the best fiction."-- Library Journal "From its opening depiction of a suicide to its final pages, the author paints a disquieting picture of wild young people who can only look forward to a future that remains unresolved."-- Publishers Weekly "Rakha writes with keen authenticity and imbues each scene in this kaleidoscopic, intelligent, and unconventional novel with unparalleled verisimilitude, essential reading for our turbulent times."-- Booklist "What happened in Egypt around its second revolution was a mixture of grandeur and pettiness, of sorrow and mirth, of expectation and despair, of theory and flesh. All of which may be found in The Crocodiles , a novel where reality sheds its veil to reveal its true face -- that of a timeless mythology."-- Amin Maalouf , Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Samarkand "Youssef Rakha's The Crocodiles is a fierce 'post-despair' novel about a generation of poets who were too caught up in themselves to witness the 2011 revolution in Egypt. Or is it? With its numbered paragraphs and beautifully surreal imagery, The Crocodiles is also a long poem, an elegiac wail singing the sad music of a collapsing Egypt. Either way, The Crocodiles --suspicious of sincerity, yet sincere in its certainty that poetry accomplishes nothing--will leave you speechless with the hope that meaning may once again return to words."-- Moustafa Bayoumi , author of How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? "Youssef Rakha has channeled Allen Ginsberg's ferocity and sexual abandon to bring a secret Cairo poetry society called The Crocodiles to life. He's done something daring and not unlike Bolaño in his transforming the Egyptian revolution into a psychedelic fiction thick with romantic round robins, defiant theorizing and an unafraid reckoning with the darkest corners of the Egyptian mentality."-- Lorraine Adams , author of Harbor "I found myself absolutely mesmerized by the poignancy and power created by Rahka's unrestrained sty≤ the heightened moments of beauty, despite their sequestration, are beautifully balletic in their structure and come fast and often."-- Skyler Vanderhoof , The Review Lab "Think Roberto Bolaño's modern classic 'The Savage Detectives,' with its creative sense of plot and pacing, relocated from Mexico City to Cairo. Renegade poets, bursts of violence, sex and love, all of it bubbling over alongside the revolution in Tahrir Square."-- SFGate, "What happened in Egypt around its second revolution was a mixture of grandeur and pettiness, of sorrow and mirth, of expectation and despair, of theory and flesh. All of which may be found in The Crocodiles , a novel where reality sheds its veil to reveal its true face--that of a timeless mythology." -Amin Maalouf, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Samarkand "Youssef Rakha's The Crocodiles is a fierce "post-despair" novel about a generation of poets who were too caught up in themselves to witness the 2011 revolution in Egypt. Or is it? With its numbered paragraphs and beautifully surreal imagery, The Crocodiles is also a long poem, an elegiac wail singing the sad music of a collapsing Egypt. Either way, The Crocodiles --suspicious of sincerity, yet sincere in its certainty that poetry accomplishes nothing--will leave you speechless with the hope that meaning may once again return to words." -Moustafa Bayoumi, author of How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? "Youssef Rakha has channeled Allen Ginsberg's ferocity and sexual abandon to bring a secret Cairo poetry society called The Crocodiles alive. He's done something daring and and not unlike Bolano in his transforming the Egyptian revolution into a psychedelic fiction thick with romantic round robins, defiant theorizing and an unafraid reckoning with the darkest corners of the Egyptian mentality." - Lorraine Adams, author of Harbor , "What happened in Egypt around its second revolution was a mixture of grandeur and pettiness, of sorrow and mirth, of expectation and despair, of theory and flesh. All of which may be found in The Crocodiles , a novel where reality sheds its veil to reveal its true face -- that of a timeless mythology."--Amin Maalouf, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Samarkand "Youssef Rakha's The Crocodiles is a fierce 'post-despair' novel about a generation of poets who were too caught up in themselves to witness the 2011 revolution in Egypt. Or is it? With its numbered paragraphs and beautifully surreal imagery, The Crocodiles is also a long poem, an elegiac wail singing the sad music of a collapsing Egypt. Either way, The Crocodiles --suspicious of sincerity, yet sincere in its certainty that poetry accomplishes nothing--will leave you speechless with the hope that meaning may once again return to words."--Moustafa Bayoumi, author of How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? "Youssef Rakha has channeled Allen Ginsberg's ferocity and sexual abandon to bring a secret Cairo poetry society called The Crocodiles to life. He's done something daring and not unlike Bolaño in his transforming the Egyptian revolution into a psychedelic fiction thick with romantic round robins, defiant theorizing and an unafraid reckoning with the darkest corners of the Egyptian mentality."--Lorraine Adams, author of Harbor, "Rakha writes with keen authenticity and imbues each scene in this kaleidoscopic, intelligent, and unconventional novel with unparalleled verisimilitude, essential reading for our turbulent times."-- Booklist "What happened in Egypt around its second revolution was a mixture of grandeur and pettiness, of sorrow and mirth, of expectation and despair, of theory and flesh. All of which may be found in The Crocodiles , a novel where reality sheds its veil to reveal its true face -- that of a timeless mythology."--Amin Maalouf, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Samarkand "Youssef Rakha's The Crocodiles is a fierce 'post-despair' novel about a generation of poets who were too caught up in themselves to witness the 2011 revolution in Egypt. Or is it? With its numbered paragraphs and beautifully surreal imagery, The Crocodiles is also a long poem, an elegiac wail singing the sad music of a collapsing Egypt. Either way, The Crocodiles --suspicious of sincerity, yet sincere in its certainty that poetry accomplishes nothing--will leave you speechless with the hope that meaning may once again return to words."--Moustafa Bayoumi, author of How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? "Youssef Rakha has channeled Allen Ginsberg's ferocity and sexual abandon to bring a secret Cairo poetry society called The Crocodiles to life. He's done something daring and not unlike Bolaño in his transforming the Egyptian revolution into a psychedelic fiction thick with romantic round robins, defiant theorizing and an unafraid reckoning with the darkest corners of the Egyptian mentality."--Lorraine Adams, author of Harbor
Copyright Date
2014
Lccn
2014-005054
Dewey Decimal
892.7/37
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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