میرامار

A highly charged, tightly written tale of intersecting lives that provides us with both an engaging and powerful story as well as a vivid portrait of life in Egypt in the late 1960's. This highly charged fable set in Alexandria, Egypt, in the late 1960s, centers on the guests of the Pension Miramar as they compete for the attention of the young servant Zohra. Zohra is a beautiful peasant girl who fled her family to escape an arranged marriage. She becomes the focus of jealousies and conflicts among the Miramar's residents, who include an assortment of radicals and aristocrats floundering in the wake of the Egyptian revolution. It becomes clear that the uneducated but strong-willed Zohra is the only one among them who knows what she wants. As the situation spirals toward violence and tragedy, the same sequence of events is retold from the perspective of four different residents, in the manner of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, weaving a nuanced portrait of the intricacies of post-revolutionary Egyptian life. A highly charged, tightly written tale of intersecting lives, by the master of Middle Eastern fiction, Miramar provides an engaging and powerful story as well as a vivid portrait of life in Egypt in the late 1960s. In the pension Miramar, a young girl hired to do chores for the residents provokes jealousies and conflicts that inevitably lead to violence and tragedy. -- Provided by publisher Cuatro hombres recalados en la pensión Miramar desterrados por una realidad social que los ha convertido en exiliados en su propio país. La rivalidad por conseguir los favores de Zohra Salama, una joven entre cándida y sugerente, crea una atmósfera de tensión enfermiza, donde la frustración y el sentimiento de fracaso afloran hasta desnudar el interior herido de cada uno. The massive old building confronts me once again.