Book description
I> consists of fifty-eight fictional monologues with Cairo taxi
drivers that have been recreated from the author's own experience,
taking the reader on a roller-coaster of emotions as bumpy and noisy as
the city's potholed and chaotic streets. Described as an urban
sociology, an ethnography, a classic of oral history - and a work of
poetry in motion - it tells Herculean tales of the struggle for survival
and dignity among Greater Cairo's 80,000 cab drivers. A best-selling
modern masterpiece in the author's home country of Egypt,
Taxi<
'Taxi's brilliance is that it captures the point at
which cabs cease to be just a means of transportation' Foreign Policy
Magazine Prior to Egypt's revolution, Taxi would have told you more
than a thousand Twitter feeds about what was coming down the road
beside the Nile -- Boyd Tonkin The Independent, UK Dipped in and out
of...this democratic cacophony transforms into a fresh and fast crash
course not just in the backdrop to the Arab spring, but in all aspects
of contemporary North African culture and people, from ever-present
convenience foods to extreme hunger, and from economic migrants to
avantgarde artists. We are all the richer for it -- Chris Ross The
Guardian, UK Illustrates the revolution Le Monde, Paris The novel that
predicted the uprising France 24
I> consists of fifty-eight fictional monologues with
Cairo taxi drivers that have been recreated from the author's own
experience, taking the reader on a roller-coaster of emotions as bumpy
and noisy as the city's potholed and chaotic streets. Described as an
urban sociology, an ethnography, a classic of oral history - and a
work of poetry in motion - it tells Herculean tales of the struggle
for survival and dignity among Greater Cairo's 80,000 cab drivers. A
best-selling modern masterpiece in the author's home country of Egypt,
Taxi<
