Metro

The first graphic novel of the Arab world, a brilliant portrait of a bank robbery and two friends' breakneck escape through an edgy, pulsing Cairo on the brink of explosion

When Shihab runs afoul of a loan shark, all avenues of salvation in Mubarak's corrupt, oppressive Egypt are closed to him but one: robbing a bank. Things go wrong: In their blow against their crumbling society, Shihab and his friend Mustafa happen on evidence of vice that points to the upper reaches of the regime.

On a wild chase through Cairo's metro system, Shihab and Mustafa turn to family and friends for refuge, which is offered only by Dina, a muckraking journalist who, for Shihab, will take the greatest of risks.

In art as alive and immediate as Cairo itself, Magdy El Shafee has delivered an arresting and prescient portrait of a crumbling society and Egypt's coming eruption. A powerful story of comrades on the lam and an impossible love, Metro also sounds the cry for a better, freer future.

General

ISBN		9780805094886
Fiction/Non-Fiction		Non-Fiction
Publisher		Metropolitan Books
Pages		108
List Price		$20.00
Author		El Shafee, Magdy
Publication Date		05/08/2012
Release Status		Forthcoming
Format		Paperback
Language		English