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Egyptian best-seller hits US bookshelves
"The best-selling Arabic novel 'Taxi' by Egyptian author Khaled Al Khamissi will be released in English in the U.S. at the start of next month, the publisher said.
"Taxi, which has been credited with reviving an interest in reading in Arabic-speaking markets, brings together short stories told by 58 fictional Cairo cabbies, based on the author's own experience of traveling in the Egyptian capital.
"The cabbies include dreamers and philosophers, misogynists and fanatics, smugglers and bankrupts, mystics and comedians. All of them are men, struggling to make a living in a cruel, noisy, chaotic and unhealthy world. [...]"
Source: Alarabiya.net (Saudi'owned, Dubai-based), April 23, 2008
Posted at: 2008-04-24
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