1970 The Last Days - 9781803092485

Seagull Books London Ltd

1970 The Last DaysAuthor(s): Sonallah Ibrahim, Eleanor Ellis\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Seagull Books London Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Seagull Books London Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781803092485, 978-1803092485\nSynopsis\nA riveting novel that is both an indictment and an elegy, a second-person memoir of Nassers final months in the voice of his former prisoner. In 1959, at the age of twenty-two, Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim was imprisoned by Gamal Abdel Nassers regime. Over the following five years in prison in Egypts Western Desert, Ibrahim kept diaries that he smuggled out on cigarette papers. In this novel, Ibrahim takes up Nasser as a fictional character tied tightly to real events, offering a window into his daily life in his final years. Ibrahim follows Nasser during the War of Attrition and the aftermath of the 1967 war with Israel and looks back on the events of the previous decades. He also chronicles Nasser at his most vulnerable, detailing a more private set of Nasser.