The Crocodiles

A Novel

Nonfiction, History, Africa, Egypt, Fiction & Literature, Literary
Cover of the book The Crocodiles by Youssef Rakha, Seven Stories Press
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Author: Youssef Rakha ISBN: 9781609805722
Publisher: Seven Stories Press Publication: December 9, 2014
Imprint: Seven Stories Press Language: English
Author: Youssef Rakha
ISBN: 9781609805722
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publication: December 9, 2014
Imprint: Seven Stories Press
Language: English

Set in Cairo between 1997 and 2011, The Crocodiles is narrated in numbered, prose poem-like paragraphs, set against the backdrop of a burning Tahrir Square, by a man looking back on the magical and explosive period of his life when he and two friends started a secret poetry club amid a time of drugs, messy love affairs, violent sex, clumsy but determined intellectual bravado, and retranslations of the Beat poets. Youssef Rakha’s provocative, brutally intelligent novel of growth and change begins with a suicide and ends with a doomed revolution, forcefully capturing thirty years in the life of a living, breathing, daring, burning, and culturally incestuous Cairo.

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Set in Cairo between 1997 and 2011, The Crocodiles is narrated in numbered, prose poem-like paragraphs, set against the backdrop of a burning Tahrir Square, by a man looking back on the magical and explosive period of his life when he and two friends started a secret poetry club amid a time of drugs, messy love affairs, violent sex, clumsy but determined intellectual bravado, and retranslations of the Beat poets. Youssef Rakha’s provocative, brutally intelligent novel of growth and change begins with a suicide and ends with a doomed revolution, forcefully capturing thirty years in the life of a living, breathing, daring, burning, and culturally incestuous Cairo.

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