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Taxi (English edition)
Taxi (English edition) | Khaled Al Khamissi
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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.
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Jari-chan
Jari-chan
Taxi | Khaled Al Khamissi
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Yesterdays dinner was a Lentil Salad from #Egypt with self-made Tarator Sauce. Simple, but so, so tasty! I love lentils 😍

#FoodandLit @Texreader @Butterfinger @Catsandbooks

Bookwormjillk Yum! 3y
Buechersuechtling Yep, lentils and chickpeas rule. 😍 3y
Jari-chan @Bookwormjillk Yes! 😍 3y
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Jari-chan @Buechersuechtling They sure do! 3y
Catsandbooks Yum! 3y
Jari-chan @Catsandbooks Definitely! 😁 3y
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Jari-chan
Jari-chan
Taxi (English edition) | Khaled Al Khamissi
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Al-Chamissi often uses the taxi and while be driven to his destinations the drivers talk. About their families, their jobs, their troubles. About politics, religion, and life itself. They all are different, they talk differently, their views are different. Like this the reader gets an intimate insight into Kairo and #Egypt at the beginning of this century. Now I wonder how much has changed since then...

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Butterfinger That sounds fascinating. 3y
bnp This sounds like an awesome way to get a glimpse a particular time & place. 3y
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Jari-chan @Butterfinger @bnp You're both right! 😊 3y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 3y
MariaW Ever since I moved to Cairo four years ago I have this one sitting on the shelf. 🙈 The taxi drivers of Cairo and in Egypt in general are very talkative and know some words in almost every language. 😊 3y
Jari-chan @MariaW Wow, that's impressive! Let me know what you think when you've read the book, and how your own experiences are 😊 3y
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