Black Magic
- ISBN-10
- 9774161041
- ISBN-13
- 9789774161049
- Series
- Black Magic
- Category
- Arabic fiction
- Pages
- 200
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- American Univ in Cairo Press
- Authors
- Hamdy el-Gazzar, Ḥamdī Jazzār, جزار، حمدي
Description
As a fourteen-year-old, Nasir was entranced by his father's gift of a camera, finding in it the means both to possess beauty and to assert himself. Now a hack working for state television, Nasir meets Fatin, an independent woman older than himself who has escaped a suffocating marriage and is secure in taking what she wants from life. An affair begins that quickly pulls Nasir into a whirlwind of incandescent erotic and emotional obsession. In a world of superficiality, materialism, violence, and sexual hysteria seen through the unforgiving lens of his camera, Nasir's life is in limbo. A yearning for escape and a fear of loneliness propel him into a relationship in which he is at once enraptured and non-committal. The resolution of this volatile mix lies in a violent confrontation between repulsion and desire. Black Magic was awarded the prestigious Sawiris Foundation Prize in Egyptian Literature in 2006.
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