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This multi-layered novel about the depths of human experience and the struggle between polarities, on the surface presents a love story of unrequited passion between Rama and Mikhail. Their story reflects the relationship not only between man and woman, Copt and Muslim, but also between Upper and Lower Egypt. Through a delicate grid of intertextual references and juxtaposed narratives, the dreams and hopes, fears and defeats of Rama and Mikhail move from the local to the global, corresponding to human dreams and anxieties everywhere.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Rama and the Dragon
• Author: Edwar al-Kharrat
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340
• EAN: 9789774166259
• ISBN: 9774166256
• ID: 02199602
• Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
• Weight: 530 g
• Dimensions: 225 × 144 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. December 2013

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