Omar Robert Hamilton est un cinéaste et écrivain primé dont les œuvres plongent dans les profondeurs de l'expérience humaine. Son écriture, fréquemment publiée dans des revues littéraires de premier plan, se caractérise par sa perspicacité et sa dextérité stylistique. En tant que cofondateur d'initiatives culturelles importantes, il démontre son engagement envers l'art et l'engagement social. Le travail d'Hamilton offre aux lecteurs une perspective unique et une expérience de lecture enrichissante.
Deeply enmeshed in the 2011 uprising in Tahrir Square, Mariam and Khalil move through Cairo's surging streets and roiling political underground, their lives burning with purpose, their city alive in open revolt, the world watching, listening, as they chart a course into an unknown future. They are, they believe, fighting a new kind of revolution; they are players in a new epic in the making.
A debut novel that captures the experience of the Egyptian revolution like no news report could The City Always Wins is a novel from the front line of a revolution. Deeply enmeshed in the 2011 uprising in Tahrir Square, Mariam and Khalil move through Cairo’s surging streets and roiling political underground, their lives burning with purpose, their city alive in open revolt, the world watching, listening, as they chart a course into an unknown future. They are—they believe—fighting a new kind of revolution; they are players in a new epic in the making. From the communal highs of night battles against the police to the solitary lows of postrevolutionary exile, Omar Robert Hamilton’s bold debut cuts to the psychological heart of one the key chapters in the twenty-first century. Arrestingly visual, intensely lyrical, uncompromisingly political, and brutal in its poetry, The City Always Wins is a novel not just about Egypt’s revolution, but about a global generation that tried to change the world.