ALSO BY ALAA AL ASWANY
Democracy Is the Answer:
Egypt’s Years of Revolution
On the State of Egypt:
What Made the Revolution Inevitable
Friendly Fire
Chicago
The Yacoubian Building
First published in Great Britain in 2016 by
Canongate Books Ltd,
14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE
This digital edition first published in 2015 by Canongate Books
Copyright © 2013, Alaa Al Aswany
English translation copyright © 2015, Alfred A. Knopf
The moral rights of the authors have been asserted
First published in English in the United States in 2015 by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York
Originally published in Egypt as Nady Alsayarat in 2013 by Dar El Shorouk, Cairo
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library
ISBN 978 0 85786 220 4
eISBN 978 0 85786 222 8
Typeset in Minion by Scribe, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Designed by Betty Lew
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