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BOOK
Rotten evidence : reading and writing in an Egyptian prison
2023
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Overview
\"In February 2016, Ahmed Naji was sentenced to two years in prison for \"violating public modesty,\" after an excerpt of his novel Using Life reportedly caused a reader to experience heart palpitations. Naji ultimately served ten months of that sentence, in a group cell block in Cairo's Tora Prison. Rotten Evidence is a chronicle of those months. Through Naji's writing, the world of Egyptian prison comes into vivid focus, with its cigarette-based economy, home-made chess sets, and well-groomed fixers. Naji's storytelling is lively and uncompromising, filled with rare insights into both the mundane and grand questions he confronts. How does one secure a steady supply of fresh vegetables without refrigeration? How does one write and revise a novel in a single notebook? Fight boredom? Build a clothes hanger? Negotiate with the chief of intelligence? And, most crucially, how does one make sense of a senseless oppression: finding oneself in prison for the act of writing fiction. Genuine and defiant, this book stands as a testament to the power of the creative mind, in the face of authoritarian censorship.\"--Front flap of cover.
Publisher
McSweeney's
Subject
ISBN
9781952119835, 1952119839
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| Call Number | Copies | Material | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| HV9843 .N35 2023 | 1 | BOOK | AUTOSTORE |
