Chicago
Subtitle: a novel
By: Alaa Al Aswany ; translated by Farouk Abdel Wahab
Contributors: Abdel Wahab, Farouk
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780061452567
Subjects: College students; Fiction; Attitudes; University of Illinois at the Medical Center; Egyptians
Work titles: Shīkājū
Description: Post-September 11 Chicago becomes the site of a cultural collision of Egyptian and American lives, including a Ph.D. candidate whose traditional upbringing is challenged by her American experiences, and an émigré whose western values are countered by questions about his daughter's honor.
Notes: Translated from the Arabic.

"First published in Arabic in 2007 as Shikagu by Dar El Shorouk"--T.p. verso.