num_pages: 336
description: A debut novel that captures the experience of the Egyptian revolution like no news report couldThe 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 Cairos 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 arethey believefighting 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 Hamiltons 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 Egypts revolution but about a global generation that tried to change the world.
language: English
title: The City Always Wins
publisher: MCD