Product Description
In this lyrical novel, the stories of three pairs of lives converge on the mercurial presence of the lake, which in the end proves the narrative’s true hero. An accomplished experiment in the poetics of space, Clamor of the Lake won the 1995 Cairo International Book Fair Award for Best Novel of the Year.
About the Author
Mohamed El-Bisatie is the author of a number of novels and collections of short stories, including A Last Glass of Tea and Other Stories (AUC Press, 1994) and Houses behind the Trees (AUC Press, 1997). He was awarded the Oweiss prize in 2001. Hala Halim is an Alexandrian writer and literary translator. She obtained her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is currently an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Humanities Consortium of the same university.