Here are the latest reviews of AUC Press books and Hoopoe novels.
Granada: The Complete Trilogy by Radwa Ashour, translated by Kay Heikkinen (Hoopoe, 2024)
“The publication of the complete Granada trilogy, by the Egyptian writer Radwa Ashour (1946–2014), in Kay Heikkinen’s vivid and elegant translation, is a moment of grand culmination, rather like the much-awaited final volume of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy. Like Mantel’s series, Granada—which chronicles the two-century destruction of Moorish Spain—is a feat of profound scholarship, an examination of how history is invented, imagined and instrumentalized in contrast to how it is experienced and lived.”—Patricia Storace, Times Literary Supplement (TLS)
Motherhood and Early Childhood in Ancient Egypt: Culture, Religion, and Medicineby Amandine Marshall, translated by Colin Clement (AUC Press, 2024)
“By comparing how the Egyptians viewed the moment of coming into existence with the manner of their leaving it, this book seeks to redress the imbalance in Egyptological literature on the subject.”—Hilary Wilson, Ancient Egypt
The First Pharaohs: Their Lives and Afterlives by Aidan Dodson (AUC Press, 2021)
“Richly illustrated. . . . offers an overview and good pictures of many monuments.”—Bibliotheca Orientalis
The Time-travels of the Man Who Sold Pickles and Sweets by Khairy Shalaby, translated by Michael Cooperson (Hoopoe, 2016)
“[The] time travel is actually a rescue mission. Its deeper intention is to conscript the entire Egyptian Islamic history in order to recuperate the authentic Egyptian national character.”—Nasser Rabat, author of Writing Egypt
The Jinn Daughter: A Novelby Rania Hanna (Hoopoe, 2024)
“A surprisingly emotional exploration of motherhood and grief.”—Literary Quicksand
