Taxi (English edition)
- ISBN-10
- 9992194316
- ISBN-13
- 9789992194317
- Pages
- 128
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-03-15
- Publisher
- A&C Black
- Author
- Khaled Al Khamissi
Description
A best-selling modern masterpiece in the author's home country of Egypt, Taxi consists of fifty-eight fictional monologues with Cairo taxi drivers that have been recreated from the author's own experience, taking the reader on a roller-coaster of emotions as bumpy and noisy as the city's potholed and chaotic streets. Described as an urban sociology, an ethnography, a classic of oral history - and a work of poetry in motion - it tells Herculean tales of the struggle for survival and dignity among Greater Cairo's 80,000 cab drivers.
