Book review: The Republic of False Truths
Stories of love and terror amid Egypt's 2011 revolutionary are vividly told in a new novel by Alaa Al Aswany
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Alaa Al Aswany revisits Egypt's doomed revolution of 2011
Faber; 464 pages; £16.99. To be published in America by Knopf in August; $28.95 I N “THE YACOUBIAN BUILDING” (2002), Alaa Al Aswany portrayed the corruption and discontent of Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt through the stories of one building’s denizens—a petty schemer, a gay writer, a doorman’s son. Illuminating and evocative, the book sold over 1m copies and was adapted for the screen. Mr Aswany’s new novel, “The Republic of False Truths”, again uses an ensemble of characters to capture his country’s contradictions and injustices. Listen to this story Enjoy more audio and podcast...
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