Description: "An unflinching and deeply humane masterwork by a writer of astounding talent and courage."--Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange Paradise "Refusing silence in Egypt. . . . Here is a Body is urgent . . . sprawling . . . [with a] conscientious impulse to record."--The New York Review of Books "Dynamic and powerful writing, brilliantly translated by Jonathan Wright."--Banipal "I loved Here Is a Body. It's absolutely brilliant!"--Beth Baron, CUNY "Abdel Aziz explores the deepest aspects of what it is to be a human being: If you can't trust your own eyes, friends, history, and memories, who--what--do you become? . . . Names and locations may be superfluous in a world of soulless governments and capitalistic opportunists, but in Here Is a Body, Abdel Aziz stirringly shows us, and demands of us: to witness, name, and remember."--World Literature Today "Haunting . . . bracing . . . This potent novel about powerful regimes and their constant rhetoric is nonetheless hopeful about powerless voices within those regimes who recognize their own manipulation. Here is a Body handles religion, politics, community, and family with provocative vitality."--Foreword Reviews "Quite an interesting book to read and discuss, given the times that we are living through."--Alicia Wallace, The Tribune 242 "A disturbing but vital read"--Arab News "Nuanced"--The World Today, Chatham House

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