Nile Sparrows

Set in the Nile-side neighborhood of Warraq, Aslan’s novel chronicles the daily rhythm of the life of rural migrants to Cairo and their complex webs of familial and neighborly relations over half a century. In an elliptical narrative, Aslan limns a series of vignettes that mimic the workings of memory, moving backward and forward in time.

Author: 
Aslan, Ibrahim
Title: 
Nile Sparrows
Subject Area: 
Fiction
Description: 

Set in the Nile-side neighborhood of Warraq, Aslan’s novel chronicles the daily rhythm of the life of rural migrants to Cairo and their complex webs of familial and neighborly relations over half a century. In an elliptical narrative, Aslan limns a series of vignettes that mimic the workings of memory, moving backward and forward in time.

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