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zeker iets voor jou Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek mooi zult vinden.  Rose-Marie | Apr 21, 2009 |  Like the Yacoubian Building, Chicago has a huge cast of characters. Most are Egyptian students studying in Chicago. The stories center around their sexual lives, families, and professions. Many of the characters suffer difficult fates. The story is unsparing in its criticism of modern Egypt. It really made me see Egyptian Arabs as real people, struggling through their lives. I like it that the story does end hopefully, with a love story, just as in Yacoubian Building. If Answany keeps this up he will win a Nobel some day. (  ) p_linehan | Nov 28, 2008 | Superbe roman polyphonique qui nous plonge au coeur de la communauté égyptienne immigrée aux Etats-Unis, des personnages pour une grande part issu du milieu universitaire. Des vies qui se cherchent, qui se croisent, qui se questionnent sur le statut d'exilé/immigré. Ce roman soulève des voiles sur l'opposition orient-occident, les différentes conceptions de la vie, entre religion et laïcité, entre culpabilité et responsabilité, engagement et fuite.... Comme L'immeuble Yacoubian, premier ouvrage couronné de succès, il constitue un moment riche en réflexions, en émotions et en plaisir, d'une écriture très fluide. Cet auteur est à rapprocher de Naguib Mahfouz, autre grand auteur égyptien qui a eu le Prix Nobel de littérature. Ils adoptent tous deux une approche assez politique, chacun selon des angles différents ; Alaa El Aswany aborde une approche plus contemporaine car il évoque le monde après le 11 septembre 2001. ( ) Delphinebr | Nov 24, 2008 | Dette er en bok med mange historier, og et stort persongalleri. De fleste er egyptere, og det hele går på korrupsjon , begjær umoral, kjærlighet og svik i moderne tid. Boken byr på mange utfordringer i form av tabuer og kulturkollisjoner. (  ) xerilona | Nov 12, 2008 | I had hoped to get stuck into this book because its blurb made it sound so intriguing. However, with so many characters involved, and several different threads running through the story, I found the storyline a tad complex to follow. It was far more political than I had expected it to be and also I thought the characters were too stereotypical. Sadly, this was not an enjoyable read for me. ( ) kehs | Aug 23, 2008 |  geen besprekingen | voeg een recensie toe
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The author of the highly-acclaimed The Yacoubian Building returns with a story of love, sex, friendship, hatred, and ambition set in Chicago with a cast of American and Arab characters achingly human in their desires and needs.
Egyptian and American lives collide on a college campus in post-9/11 Chicago, and crises of identity abound in this extraordinary and eagerly anticipated new novel from Alaa al Aswany. Among the players are a sixties-style antiestablishment professor whose relationship with a younger African American woman becomes a moving target for intolerance; a veiled PhD candidate whose conviction in the principles of her traditional upbringing is shaken by her exposure to American society; an émigré whose fervent desire to embrace his American identity is tested when he is faced with the issue of his daughter's "honor"; an Egyptian informant who spouts religious doctrines while hankering after money and power; and a dissident student poet who comes to America to finance his literary aspirations, but whose experience in Chicago turns out to be more than he bargained for.
Populated by a cast of intriguing, true-to-life characters, Chicago offers an illuminating portrait of America--a complex, often contradictory land in which triumph and failure, opportunity and oppression, licentiousness and tender love, small dramas and big dreams coexist. Beautifully rendered, Chicago is a powerfully engrossing novel of culture and individuality from one of the most original voices in contemporary world literature.
(opgehaald bij Amazon Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:34:06 -0500)
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Vi møter blant annet et ektepar, hvor undertrykkelse og vold er en del av deres hverdag. En svært tradisjonsbundet kvinnelig student håper at romansen hun har innledet, skal ende med ekteskap. En annen student innleder et forhold til en jødinne. Temaer som korrupsjon, rasisme, angiveri, sex, holdninger og tradisjoner driver handlingen frem.
Forfatteren er ikke nådig i beskrivelsene av sine egne landsmenn. Noen ganger tipper det også litt over, slik at personkarakteristikkene nærmest blir karikaturer. Men ser man forbi dette, er boka herlig underholdende og spennende. Boka når ikke helt opp til "Yacoubian-bygningen", men er like fullt svært leseverdig synes jeg. Det var en del løse tråder i boka på slutten, og jeg håper derfor at det kommer en oppfølger. (