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Availability:In StockContributor:Sherif Meleka, Raymond Stock (Translator)Series:Hoopoe FictionPublish date:2023-03-14Pages:308
Language:EnglishPublisher:HoopoeISBN-13:9781649032041ISBN-10:1649032048UPC:9781649032041Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Literary, Magical RealismSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SC34QERHAH

An enchanted ring brings good fortune to an Egyptian oud player in this compelling novel combining elements of magical realism with political history

Can one man or a mere ring alter the events of one's life and the history of a country? Combining elements of magical realism with momentous history, Suleiman's Ring poses these questions and more in a gripping tale of friendship, identity, and the fate of a nation.

Alexandria, Egypt, on the eve of the 1952 Free Officers revolution. Dawud, a struggling musician, is summoned with his best friend Sheikh Hassanein to a meeting with Lt. Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser, who seeks their help as he mobilizes for the revolution. Dawud lends Nasser an enchanted silver ring for its powers to bring good luck. The revolution succeeds but Dawud soon grows estranged from Hassanein, who has joined the Muslim Brotherhood, after he suggests that Dawud leave Egypt since as a Jew he is no longer welcome. When Hassanein is arrested, however, destiny draws Dawud into a complex web of sexual intrigue and betrayal that threatens to upend his already precarious existence.

Set against the backdrop of the simmering political tensions of mid-twentieth-century Egypt and the Arab-Israeli wars, Sherif Meleka's story of fate and fortune transports us to another time and place while peeling back the curtain on events that still haunt the country to this day.
Language:EnglishPublisher:HoopoeISBN-13:9781649032041ISBN-10:1649032048UPC:9781649032041Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Literary, Magical RealismSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SC34QERHAH

Sherif Meleka was born in 1958 into a Coptic Christian family in Alexandria, Egypt. A trained medical doctor, he emigrated to the United States in 1984. He is the author of numerous novels, poetry and short story collections in Arabic. Suleiman's Ring is his English-language debut. He currently lives in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

Raymond Stock
is senior instructor of Arabic at Louisiana State University with a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania (2008). A former resident of Cairo (1990-2010), he has translated seven books and many short stories by Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006), including Before the Throne, Khufu's Wisdom, The Coffeehouse (all AUC Press).


Publisher: Hoopoe

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