Friendly Fire by Asaa Al Aswany

							Friendly Fire by Alaa Al Aswany



Friendly Fire, the first collection of short stories from Alaa Al
Aswany, acclaimed author of Chicago and The Yacoubian
Building, deftly explores the lives of contemporary Egyptians.
Here are stories of generational conflict, corruption, repression,
infidelity, and the dangerous clashing of western and Arab
ideals

In "The Kitchen Boy" and "Dearest Sister Makarim," Al Aswany
explores the hypocrisy of the class divide. The brief and tender
"Izzat Amin Iskandar" is a heartrending view of youthful hope.
And in the unforgettable novella "The Isam Abd el-Ati Papers,"
the narrator carries us along a troubling journey through his
painful relationships with his artist father and his self-centred
mother, en route to a devastating collision of temptation and
morality.