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A young Egyptian girl chronicles her personal and politics coming of age in this debut book. Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot warmer summer months. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her times pass silently: hearing a mother's telephone conversations, considering the Nile from a bedroom windowpane, viewing the three state-sanctioned Television stations with the volume off, daydreaming about other lives. Underlying this claustrophobic schedule is mystery and reduction. Family members mutter darkly about the recently appointed Chief executive Mubarak. Everyone talks with melancholy about days gone by. People disappear immediately. Her own father has kept, too - why, or even to where, no-one will say. We meet her across three ages, from young ones to adulthood: as a six-year-old absorbing the globe around her, filled with questions she can't ask; as a college student and aspiring filmmaker preoccupied with love, dialect, and the repression that surrounds her; and then later, in the turbulent aftermath of Mubarak's overthrow, as a copy writer discovering her own past. Reunited with her father, she wonders about the silences that contain marked and molded her life. At once a mapping of the city in change and a tale about the moving realities and fates of a single Egyptian family, Yasmine El Rashidi's Chronicle of a Last Summer season traces the fine collection between survival and complicity, discovering the conscience of the generation raised alone.
