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Author ʻAshmāwī, Ashraf, author.

Title The house of the coptic woman : a novel / Ashraf El-Ashmawi, translated by Peter Daniel
Published New York, NY : Hoopoe, an imprint of The American University in Cairo Press, 2023
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Description 1 online resource (217 pages.)
Summary "Nader, an idealistic public prosecutor at the outset of his career, leaves Cairo to start a new posting in rural upper Egypt. On his first night, a mysterious woman named Huda shows up at his lodgings. She is on the run from an abusive husband and, harboring a dark secret, seeks a new start in this small village and escape her harrowing past. Nothing is to be easy for Huda or Nader, and the dramatic circumstances of their first meeting signal the disquiet to come. It is not long before tensions between Copts and Muslims, already on a knife-edge, spiral into a spate of unexplained killings and arson attacks. The locals blame the trouble on the supernatural, and Nader is thrown into a quagmire of sectarian conflict and superstition that no amount of formal training could have prepared him for. His investigations are thwarted at every turn, by uncooperative witnesses and an obstructive police force. As Nader and Huda each pursue happiness and justice, their parallel journeys struggle against the forces of ignorance, poverty, hatred, and greed. With its echoes of Tawfiq al-Hakim's Diary of a Country Prosecutor, this is a powerful and personal tale of conflict, crime, and upheaval in rural Egypt."-- Provided by publisher
Notes Translated from the Arabic
Description based on print version record
Subject Copts -- Fiction
Muslims -- Egypt -- Fiction
Genre/Form Legal fiction (Literature)
Novels
Thrillers (Fiction)
Legal fiction (Literature)
Thrillers (Fiction)
Novels.
Romans judiciaires.
Romans.
Form Electronic book
Author Daniel, Peter (Translator), translator.
ISBN 9781649032560
1649032560
9781649032553
1649032552
Other Titles Bayt al-Qibṭīyah. English
Bayt al-Qibṭīyah