Chicago

Paperback. Pub Date :2011-07-22 Pages: 356 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK Sex. money and politics are the driving forces of society in this new novel from bestselling author Alaa al Aswany.A medley of Egyptian and American lives collides on the campus of the University of Illinois Medical Center in a post-911 Chicago. and crises of identity abound.Among the players are an atheistic anti-establishment American professor of the sixties generation. whose relationship with a younger African-American woman becomes a moving target for intolerance; a veiled PhD candidate whose conviction in the code of her traditional upbringing is shaken by her exposure to American society; an emigre who has fervently embraced his new American identity. but who cannot escape his Egyptian roots when faced with the issue of his daughters honour; an Egyptian State Security informant wh...