On the Greenwich Line - Softcover

Lewis, Shady

 
9781908670953: On the Greenwich Line
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1908670959 ISBN 13: 9781908670953
Verlag: Peirene Press Ltd, 2025

Inhaltsangabe


In a run-down East London housing office, migrants and frustrated local government employees cross paths and try to work out what the latest policy means for them. As a favour to his friend, one man finds himself roped into organizing the funeral of Ghiyath, a young Syrian refugee. It is not until his life collides with Ghiyath's death that he realises just how much he has in common with those who've fallen through the cracks.

On the Greenwich Line traces the absurdities of racism, austerity, and bureaucracy in contemporary England. This is a story about systemic failure and personal courage, and about London and its many lost souls, told with wisdom, humour and profound humanity.

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Shady Lewis, born 1978, is an Egyptian novelist and journalist whose writing centres on cultural and political intersections within and beyond the Arab world. He lives in London, where he has spent many years employed by the National Health Service and local authority housing departments, working with homeless people and patients with complex needs. He has published three novels to date-The Lord's Ways (2018), On The Greenwich Line (2019), and A Brief History of Genesis and Eastern Cairo (2021)-each of which engage with the social history of Coptic Christians and trajectories of migration from Egypt to the West. On The Greenwich Line has been translated into German and French, and is forthcoming in English from Peirene Press in 2025. The French translation was shortlisted for the Prix de la litte rature arabe 2023.

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Verlag
Peirene Press Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1908670959
ISBN 13 
9781908670953
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Anzahl der Seiten
176
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