Overview
A debut novel that captures the experience of the Egyptian revolution like no news report could The City Always Wins is a novel from the front line of a revolution. Deeply enmeshed in the 2011 uprising in Tahrir Square, Mariam and Khalil move through CairoÆs surging streets and roiling political underground, their lives burning with purpose, their city alive in open revolt, the world watching, listening, as they chart a course into an unknown future. They areùthey believeùfighting a new kind of revolution; they are players in a new epic in the making. From the communal highs of night battles against the police to the solitary lows of postrevolutionary exile, Omar Robert HamiltonÆs bold debut cuts to the psychological heart of one the key chapters in the twenty-first century. Arrestingly visual, intensely lyrical, uncompromisingly political, and brutal in its poetry, The City Always Wins is a novel not just about EgyptÆs revolution, but about a global generation that tried to change the world.
- | Author: Omar Robert Hamilton
- | Publisher: Picador
- | Publication Date: Jun 12, 2018
- | Number of Pages: 320 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
- | ISBN-10: 1250182050
- | ISBN-13: 9781250182050
