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What I know about you / Éric Chacour ; translated by Pablo Strauss.

Chacour, Éric, 1983- (author.). Strauss, Pablo, (translator.).

Summary:

"In a tight-knit Levantine Christian family in 1960s Cairo, Tarek's entire life is written in advance. He'll be a doctor like his father, marry, and have children. Under the watchful eye of the family's strong women, he starts to do just that -- until a patient's son, Ali, enters his life and turns it upside down. The two men's unsayable relationship sparks a series of events as dramatic as the Six-Day War and assassination of President Anwar Sadat playing out in the background."-- From publisher's description.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781552454855 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: 220 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto, ON : Coach House Books, [2024]

Content descriptions

Language Note:
English translated from French.
Subject: Christians > Egypt > Fiction.
Gay men > Fiction.
Man-man relationships > Fiction.
Cairo (Egypt) > Fiction.
Genre: Gay fiction.
Queer fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.

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Lakeshore Branch FIC Chaco 31681010403400 FICTIONPBK Checked out 07/02/2025

Born in Montreal to Egyptian parents, Éric Chacour shared his life between France and Quebec. A graduate in applied economics and international relations, he now works in the financial sector. What I Know About You is his first novel.

Pablo Strauss is the translator of twelve works of fiction, several graphic novels, and the screenplay of one feature film, White Dog (2022). He is a three-time finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for translation for The Country Will Bring Us No Peace (Coach House Books, 2020), Synapses (Talonbooks, 2019), and The Longest Year (House of Anansi, 2017). The Dishwasher, his translation of Stéphane Larue’s Le plongeur, won the 2020 Amazon Canada First Novel Award. He has published essays, reviews, and translations in Granta, Geist, The Literary Review of Canada, The Globe and Mail and The Montreal Review of Books. Pablo grew up in Victoria, BC, and has made his home in Quebec City for fifteen years.


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