Otared - (Hoopoe Fiction) by Mohammad Rabie (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>2025: fourteen years after the failed revolution, Egypt is invaded once more. As traumatized Egyptians eke out a feral existence in Cairo's dusty downtown, former cop Ahmed Otared joins a group of fellow officers seeking Egypt's liberation through the barrel of a gun. As Cairo becomes a foul cauldron of drugs, sex, and senseless violence, Otared finally understands his country's fate. In this unflinching and grisly novel, Mohammad Rabie envisages a grim future for Egypt, where death is the only certainty.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>2025: fourteen years after the failed revolution, Egypt is invaded once more. As traumatized Egyptians eke out a feral existence in Cairo's dusty downtown, former cop Ahmed Otared joins a group of fellow officers seeking Egypt's liberation through the barrel of a gun. As Cairo becomes a foul cauldron of drugs, sex, and senseless violence, Otared finally understands his country's fate. In this unflinching and grisly novel, Mohammad Rabie envisages a grim future for Egypt, where death is the only certainty.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><br>"Gritty."--<em></em><strong><em>New York Times</em></strong><em><p></p></em><br>"More than just a portrait of a bleak future, this novel is of course a trenchant critique of modern Egypt. In Robin Moger's deft translation, Rabie's deployment of irony is skillfully rendered, a tool he uses to invert his country's contemporary characteristics in an attempt to underscore the absurdity of his narrative."--<em></em><strong><em>Culture Trip</em></strong><em><p></p></em><br>"Reading <em>Otared</em> is by and large like having a hand grasping the back of your head, forcing you to look through photos from hell."--<strong>Marcia Lynx Qualey, </strong><strong><em>The National</em></strong><strong><p></p></strong><br>"Part early Ian McEwan, part Philip K. Dick, Mohammad Rabie's apocalyptic take on the Arab Spring in Egypt is an expressionist coupurgent, disturbing, and eminently readable."--<strong>Youssef Rakha</strong>, author of <em>The Crocodiles</em> and <em>The Book of the Sultan's Seal</em><p></p><br>"A book of perverse and stomach-curdling violence that would have been unthinkable before the 2011 revolution, which inspired it."--<em>Times Literary Supplement</em><p></p><br>"A fulfilling read that is honest in its depictions and provides a haunting look at the effect of war and at people who have seen too much of it."--<em>Portland Book Review</em><p></p><br>"The world Rabie paints reminds me very much of the insane landscape in Paul Auster's 'In the Country of Last Things, ' with its violence, its cruelty, and its bizarre customs. . . . No science fiction novel has gut punched me this hard for a long, long time. . . . Mohammad Rabie is an emerging force in Egyptian letters"--Sean McLachlan, Black Gate blog<p></p><br><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><br>Born in 1978, <strong>Mohammad Rabie</strong> is the author of three acclaimed novels. His first novel, <em>Amber's Planet</em>, won first prize in the Emerging Writers category of the Sawiris Cultural Award in 2012. He lives in Cairo, Egypt. <p/><strong>Robin Moger </strong>studied Egyptology and Arabic at Oxford University before working as a journalist in Cairo for six years. He is the translator of <em>A Dog with No Tail </em>by Hamdi Abu Golayyel (AUC Press, 2009) and <em>Women of Karantina</em> by Nael Eltoukhy (AUC Press, 2014), and his translation for <em>Writing</em> <em>Revolution </em>(2013) won the 2013 English PEN Award for outstanding writing in translation.<br>
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