Autumn Quail
Isa ad-Dabbagh, a young bureaucrat and one of the early victims of the purge following the 1952 Revolution is the central figure of this tale of moral responsibility, alienation, and political downfall
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Autumn Quail is a tale of moral responsibility, alienation, and political downfall featuring a corrupt young bureaucrat, Isa ad-Dabbagh, who is one of the early victims of the purge after the 1952 Revolution in Egypt. The conflict between his emotional instincts and his gradual intellectual acceptance of the Revolution forms the framework for a remarkable portrait of the clash between past and present, a portrait that is ultimately an optimistic one in which the two will peacefully coexist.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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