Bibliograph

I do not sleep, Ihsan Abdel Kouddous ; translated by Jonathan Smolin

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I do not sleep, Ihsan Abdel Kouddous ; translated by Jonathan Smolin

Language

eng

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Literary Form

novels

Main title

I do not sleep

Oclc number

1237630743

Responsibility statement

Ihsan Abdel Kouddous ; translated by Jonathan Smolin

Summary

""Sixteen-year-old Nadia had been raised by her father, after her parents divorced when she was only a baby. Indulged and petulant, she remained the only female in her father's life. But when she returns from boarding school to find that he has remarried without her knowledge, she conspires to restore her rightful place, creating misery, confusion, and a flood of unexpected consequences in her wake. Written as a letter, a confession, by now twenty-one-year old Nadia, Ihsan Abdel Kouddous's classic novel of revenge and betrayal challenges patriarchal norms with its strong female characters and brazen sexuality, and continues to speak to the complex human condition. It dives into middle-class life, and lays bare the repressed desires, seething jealousies, and complicated dramas of family. Abdel Kouddous's masterpiece I Do Not Sleep was adapted into a classic of Egyptian cinema in 1957, and its publication for the first time in English is an international publishing event.""--, Provided by publisher

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