On the Greenwich Line - Lewis, Shady
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On the Greenwich Line traces the absurdities of racism, austerity, and bureaucracy in contemporary London. This is a story about systemic failure and personal courage, and about London and its many lost souls, told with wisdom, humour and profound humanity.

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On the Greenwich Line traces the absurdities of racism, austerity, and bureaucracy in contemporary London. This is a story about systemic failure and personal courage, and about London and its many lost souls, told with wisdom, humour and profound humanity.
Autorenporträt
Shady Lewis, born 1978, is an Egyptian novelist and journalist whose writing centres on cultural and political intersections within and beyond the Arab world. He lives in London, where he has spent many years employed by the National Health Service and local authority housing departments, working with homeless people and patients with complex needs. He has published three novels in Arabic to date - The Lord's Ways (2018), On the Greenwich Line (2019), and A Brief History of Genesis and Eastern Cairo (2021) - each of which engage with the social history of Coptic Christians and trajectories of migration from Egypt to the West, and a travel diary, Death Tourism, or a Comedy of Foreigners (2024). On the Greenwich Line has also been translated into German, French and Italian; the French translation was shortlisted for the 2023 Prix de la littérature arabe. Katharine Halls is an Arabic-to-English translator from Cardiff, Wales. Her critically acclaimed translation of Ahmed Naji's prison memoir Rotten Evidence was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography, she was awarded a 2021 PEN/Heim grant for her translation of Haytham El-Wardany's Things That Can't Be Fixed and her translation, with Adam Talib, of Raja Alem's The Dove's Necklace received the 2017 Sheikh Hamad Award. Her work has appeared in Frieze, The Kenyon Review, The Believer, McSweeney's, The Common, Asymptote, and others. She is one third of teneleven, an agency for contemporary Arabic literature.