Chronicle of a Last Summer : A Novel of Egypt

from shancroley1

This is the first book I have read that takes place in Egypt. I found the Historical aspects interesting but found the storyline slow and abit boring. This is a short book and was not difficult to read. Overall impression is blah! I won my copy of Chronicle of a Last Summer from LibraryThing.

from Dove.

Short sentences in a stream of consciousness style result in an account that is rich with details but lacking in depth. I want to dig in deeper, understand more. This style moves the narrative along quickly, describing the life of an Egyptian girl, and later woman, over the course of three import...

from fizzypops

I received an ARC of this book through LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program. Yasmine El Rashidi brings us this unique perspective into the chronic instability and uncertainty of middle class family life in Cairo. We see through the narrator's fearful lens three significant events in domestic Eg...

from laurenhc

Chronicle of a Last Summer paints an evocative picture of Cairo throughout three different times of political tumult. The author's love of the city is clear, and it's a an interesting glimpse into modern Egyptian history and culture - but it really is just that, a glimpse. It's a short book, and ...

from Tanya-dogearedcopy

Elegant, almost elegiac prose paradoxically reflects the disquietude of three summers of revolution in Cairo, Egypt: 1984, 1998, and 2014. This lit-fic novel reads like a memoir owing to its powerful, spare and introspective language. We meet the unnamed-protagonist as a little girl in 1984. The ...