1970: The Last Days

by Sonallah Ibrahim

A riveting novel that is both an indictment and an elegy, a second-person memoir of Nasser's 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 Nasser's regime. Over the following five years in prison in Egypt's Western Desert, Ibrahim kept diaries that he smuggled out on cigarette papers.

In this novel, Ibrahim takes up Nasser...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1803092483
• ISBN13: 9781803092485
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"