My Lists
Featured Lists
REVIEWS
Library Journal
Starred Review on May 15, 2017 | High-Profile Debut Novels
In fluid, you-are-there prose, punchy with anger and aspiration, Hamilton takes the events surrounding the 2011 uprising in Cairo's Tahrir Square and turns them into persuasive and valuable fiction. Khalil, born in America, where in his judgment his father is hiding out from his native Palestine, has gone to Egypt to study music but becomes a news fixer and translator. Then he's dr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More