En Alejandria, Los Arboles Caminan

A fascinating choral novel about the splendor and decline of Alexandria in the time of Abdel Nasser. In the Alexandria of 1964, a group of characters gathers every night in a bar while the city crumbles under the weight of nationalism. Alaa Al Aswani composes an intense mosaic of lives marked by loss, fear and opportunism. A lucid and powerful novel about the end of coexistence and the rise of authoritarianism.