Ahmed Naji: Rotten Evidence, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Ahmed Naji confronts what happens when one's fundamentally unserious, oversexed youth dovetails with an authoritarian, utterly self-serious regime.-Zadie Smith , author of The Fraud

In February 2016, Ahmed Naji was sentenced to two years in prison for "violating public decency," after an excerpt of his novel Using Life reportedly caused a reader to experience heart palpitations. Naji ultimately served ten months of that sentence in Cairo's Tora Prison. Rotten Evidence is a record of those months. Through Naji's writing, the world of Egyptian prison comes into vivid focus, with its cigarette-based economy, homemade chess sets, and well-groomed fixers. Naji's storytelling is lively and uncompromising, filled with rare insights into the mundane and grand questions he confronts: How does one secure a steady supply of fresh vegetables without refrigeration? How does one write and revise a novel in a single notebook? Fight boredom? Build a clothes hanger? Negotiate with the chief of intelligence? And, most crucially, how does one make sense of a senseless oppression: finding oneself in prison for the act of writing fiction? Genuine and defiant, this book is a testament to the power of the creative mind in the face of authoritarian censorship.