Other Place, The

A prize-winning novel exploring the invisible lives caught up in the petroleum industry. It pictures rather than states the desolation brought about when market values take over and ravages ensue. "The Other Place" was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 1996.

Author: 
Abdel Meguid, Ibrahim
Title: 
The Other Place
Publisher: 
AUC Press
Place of Publication: 
Egypt
Date: 
2005
Subject Area: 
Fiction
Original Language: 
Arabic
Translator: 
Farouk Abdel Wahhab
ISBN: 
977-424-958-5
Description: 

A prize-winning novel exploring the invisible lives caught up in the petroleum industry. It pictures rather than states the desolation brought about when market values take over and ravages ensue. "The Other Place" was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 1996.