A01=Peter Hessler
Ahdaf Soueif
Author_Peter Hessler
Cairo
Category=DNC
Category=JPHV
Category=WTL
Colin Thubron
Country Driving
egypt
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
eq_travel
George Packer
Ghosts of the Tsunami
Into the Hands of the Soldiers David Kirkpatrick
Islam
Katherine Boo
Omar Robert Hamilton
Oracle Bones
Peter Frankopan
Peter Hessler
Pharaohs
Pyramids
Richard Lloyd Parry
River Town
Silk Roads
Strange Stones
The City Always Wins
The Muslim Brotherhood
the New Yorker
William Dalrymple
Product details
- ISBN 9781788161312
- Weight: 330g
- Dimensions: 130 x 202mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jul 2020
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
'Tenacious, revelatory, and humane.' - Paul Theroux
'The Buried is the kind of book that you don't want to end and won't forget. With the eye of a great storyteller Peter Hessler weaves together history, reporting, memoir, and above all the lives of ordinary people in a beautiful and haunting portrait of Egypt and its Revolution.' - Ben Rhodes
Winner of the The Peter Mackenzie Smith Book Prize 2021
In 2011, while revolution swept across Egypt, Peter Hessler was reporting on the everyday lives and ancient secrets of a country in turmoil.
The result is this unforgettable work of literary and documentary brilliance. In The Buried, Hessler traces the human stories alongside the broader sweep of historic events: Tahrir Square, the massacres and the coup form the background, but so too do ancient cults, buried cities in the desert and dead pharaohs with huge ambitions. Most important are the people forging their lives in this world. We follow rubbish collector Sayyid; Arabic teacher Rifaat; and Manu, a translator. There are also the Chinese immigrants who have built a lingerie empire, politicians and ingenious archaeologists. Together, they raise the question: is revolution just repetition, or can things ever really change?
Peter Hessler is a staff writer at the New Yorker, where he served as Beijing correspondent from 2000-2007, and is also a contributing writer for National Geographic. He is the author of River Town, which won the Kiriyama Book Prize, Oracle Bones, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, Country Driving and Strange Stones. He won the 2008 National Magazine Award for excellence in reporting.
