On The Greenwich Line - Softcover

Lewis, Shady & Halls

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908670959 ISBN 13: 9781908670953

Verlag: Turnaround Pub. Serv. Ltd, 2025

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WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026

Shortlisted for the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize 2025
Shortlisted for the EBRD Literature Prize 2026
Longlisted for the Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize 2026

'I was riveted and charmed by this funny, humane and poignant novel. It's written in a voice that is as ardent as it is sensitive, one marked by history and yet managing to remain beautifully unruly and independent.'
- Hisham Matar, author of My Friends and The Return

In an East London housing office, a frustrated local government employee spends his days trying to figure out what the latest policy announcement means for both himself and the migrants he works with every day. As a favour to a friend, he finds himself roped into organizing the funeral of Ghiyath, a young Syrian refugee. But it is not until his life collides with Ghiyath's death that he realises just how much he has in common with those who've fallen through the cracks.

Told with a wry cynicism and deadpan wit, On the Greenwich Line traces the absurdities of racism, austerity, and bureaucracy in contemporary England. This is a story about systemic failure and human courage, and about London and its many lost souls.

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Shady Lewis, born 1978, is an Egyptian novelist and journalist whose writing centres on cultural and political intersections within and beyond the Arab world. He lives in London, where he has spent many years employed by the National Health Service and local authority housing departments, working with homeless people and patients with complex needs. He has published three novels in Arabic to date - The Lord's Ways (2018), On the Greenwich Line (2019), and A Brief History of Genesis and Eastern Cairo (2021) - each of which engage with the social history of Coptic Christians and trajectories of migration from Egypt to the West, and a travel diary, Death Tourism, or a Comedy of Foreigners (2024). On the Greenwich Line has also been translated into German, French and Italian; the French translation was shortlisted for the 2023 Prix de la littérature arabe.

Katharine Halls is an Arabic-to-English translator from Cardiff, Wales. Her critically acclaimed translation of Ahmed Naji's prison memoir Rotten Evidence was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography, she was awarded a 2021 PEN/Heim grant for her translation of Haytham El-Wardany's Things That Can't Be Fixed and her translation, with Adam Talib, of Raja Alem's The Dove's Necklace received the 2017 Sheikh Hamad Award. Her work has appeared in Frieze, The Kenyon Review, The Believer, McSweeney's, The Common, Asymptote, and others. She is one third of teneleven, an agency for contemporary Arabic literature.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Turnaround Pub. Serv. Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1908670959
• ISBN 13: 9781908670953
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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