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This multi-layered novel about the depths of human experience and the struggle between polarities, on the surface presents a love story of unrequited passion between Rama and Mikhail. Their story reflects the relationship not only between man and woman, Copt and Muslim, but also between Upper and Lower Egypt. Through a delicate grid of intertextual references and juxtaposed narratives, the dreams and hopes, fears and defeats of Rama and Mikhail move from the local to the global, corresponding to human dreams and anxieties everywhere.

Rama and the Dragon: An Egyptian Novel

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    A Paperback / softback by Edwar al-Kharrat, John Verlenden, Ferial J. Ghazoul

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      Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/12/2013
      ISBN13: 9789774166259, 978-9774166259
      ISBN10: 9774166256

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      Book Synopsis
      This multi-layered novel about the depths of human experience and the struggle between polarities, on the surface presents a love story of unrequited passion between Rama and Mikhail. Their story reflects the relationship not only between man and woman, Copt and Muslim, but also between Upper and Lower Egypt. Through a delicate grid of intertextual references and juxtaposed narratives, the dreams and hopes, fears and defeats of Rama and Mikhail move from the local to the global, corresponding to human dreams and anxieties everywhere.

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