{"product_id":"9780770437299-secondhand-chronicle-of-a-last-summer","title":"Chronicle Of A Last Summer","description":"\u003cp\u003eA young Egyptian woman recounts her personal and political coming of age in this brilliant debut novel.    Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother's phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom window, watching the three state-sanctioned TV stations with the volume off, daydreaming about other lives. Underlying this claustrophobic routine is mystery and loss. Relatives mutter darkly about the newly-appointed President Mubarak. Everyone talks with melancholy about the past. People disappear overnight. Her own father has left, too--why, or to where, no one will say.  We meet her across three decades, from youth to adulthood: As a six-year old absorbing the world around her, filled with questions she can't ask; as a college student and aspiring filmmaker pre-occupied with love, language, and the repression that surrounds her; and then later, in the turbulent aftermath of Mubarak's overthrow, as a writer exploring her own past. Reunited with her father, she wonders about the silences that have marked and shaped her life.  At once a mapping of a city in transformation and a story about the shifting realities and fates of a single Egyptian family, Yasmine El Rashidi's  Chronicle of a Last Summer  traces the fine line between survival and complicity, exploring the conscience of a generation raised in silence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49184022266075,"sku":"9780770437299-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/9780770437299-us-300.jpg?v=1787799407","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780770437299-secondhand-chronicle-of-a-last-summer","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}