The Crocodiles
1999
First Published
3.46
Average Rating
256
Number of Pages
Set in Cairo between 1997 and 2011, The Crocodiles is narrated in numbered, prose poem-like paragraphs, set against the backdrop of a burning Tahrir Square, by a man looking back on the magical and explosive period of his life when he and two friends started a secret poetry club amid a time of drugs, messy love affairs, violent sex, clumsy but determined intellectual bravado, and retranslations of the Beat poets. Youssef Rakha’s provocative, brutally intelligent novel of growth and change begins with a suicide and ends with a doomed revolution, forcefully capturing thirty years in the life of a living, breathing, daring, burning, and culturally incestuous Cairo.
Avg Rating
3.46
Number of Ratings
151
5 STARS
19%
4 STARS
32%
3 STARS
30%
2 STARS
13%
1 STARS
6%
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Author
Youssef Rakha
Author · 6 books
Youssef Rakha is an Egyptian writer | يوسف رخا كاتب مصري
