THE CITY ALWAYS WINS

Book ID/图书代码： 04560016B89524

English Summary/英文概要： In Egypt during the revolution of 2011, The City Always Wins tells the story of the individuals who chose to direct, manipulate and influence the movement through social media. It’s a visceral portrait of the central moment at the heart of the ill-fated Arab Spring, violent, angry and passionate, a love story to a country and its people, a political novel written with a virtuoso intelligence.
His is the first book to deal with these major events of the 21st century, following the lives of two young revolutionaries as they struggle against the weight of history and the powerful draw of future possibilities, frustrated and angry and passionate and hopeful and disappointed and always trying to move forward. Although it doesn’t follow a ‘traditional’ narrative structure, nor should it
, The voices of the book echo the chaos in Cairo, as excitement leads to horror, joy to confusion, hilarity to devastation, and hopeful progress is thwarted time and time again by reactionary authority. The writing is truly incredible, and it’ll be a major debut fiction event for Faber in 2017.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在2011年埃及革命期间，本书讲述了选择通过社交媒体引导、操纵、影响革命运动的人物的故事。这是一个鲜明表现不幸的阿拉伯之春运动核心时刻的故事，暴力、愤怒、富有激情，又是一个关于国家和人民的爱情故事，也是一部以智慧写就的政治小说。

本书是作者首部有关上述21世纪重大事件的作品，故事讲述了两个年轻革命者对抗历史和未来的生命历程，他们时而沮丧，时而愤怒，时而热情，时而充满希望，时而感到失望，却始终努力向前。尽管作品并没有采用传统的叙事结构，但书中人物发出的声音印证了发生在开罗的混乱——由兴奋到恐惧，由欢乐到困惑，由狂欢到毁灭，希望的进程一次又一次被保守当局所挫败。文笔精彩纷呈，可能是2017年最重要的虚构类处女作。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：Earlier pre-publication praise for THE CITY ALWAYS WINS:

’Few writers could capture the frenetic speed of an Internet-fuelled uprising alongside the time-stopping corporeal reality of bullet-ridden bodies, all while never losing sight of the love that powered Egypt’s revolutionary moment. Robert OmarHamilton can do all that and more. Crossing borders and generations, he brings us into the movement’s effervescent hope and its crushing heartbreak, probing timeless questions about what the living owe to the dead. Unbearable. Unmissable. A dazzling debut.’ Naomi Klein

‘From the chaos and torment of a revolution, and the perpetual struggle with despotism, Omar Robert Hamilton has drawn a novel of great emotional and intellectual power. The City Always Wins is a rare fiction that reminds us, with its wisdom about violence and inequality, grief and loss, how politics is for many today a way to live—-and die.’ Pankaj Mishra

’I finished your novel with fascination and admiration. It gives a picture of the inside of a popular movement that we all saw from the outside, in countless news broadcasts and foreign-correspondent reports, a picture so vivid and powerful that it gives a passionate life and reality to what might have been perceived only as abstract principles. A thousand vivid details print themselves on the reader’s memory: it will be a long time before we read anything so skilfully brought to life.’ Philip Pullman

’Fucking incredible, and this is without superlatives. Hamilton has created both an unsparing psychological portrait of a generation, and a poetic, searing depiction of a revolution betrayed. From the high of post revolutionary Tahrir, when you could just about see a new world through the tear gas, to the cages and morgues of fascist Egypt, Hamilton presents a bleak vision that is not, ultimately, devoid of hope.’ Molly Crabapple

"Omar Hamilton brings vividly to life the failed revolution of 2011 on the streets of Cairo, in all its youthful bravery and naive utopianism." - JM Coetzee

’The City Always Wins is a stirring, clear, humane and immensely savvy novel about political innocence and fearlessness. Its fictive portrayals of the Egyptian ’revolution’ of 2011 are nothing less than ground-breaking.’ Richard Ford

About the Author/作者介绍： Omar Robert Hamilton ，获奖电影制作人、作家。在开罗和纽约共同创立了国际巴勒斯坦文学节和开罗的Mosireen媒体集体，其记录作品被点击观看了百万次。他的作品发表在《卫报》《伦敦书评》等报纸杂志上。他在社交媒体上有2万多名粉丝。目前正在创作数部非虚构类作品和一部背景设置于纽约的小说。他是一位真正意义上的国际作家。

Omar Robert Hamilton is an award-winning filmmaker and writer. Based between Cairo and New York, Omar co-founded the international Palestine Festival of Literature as well as Cairo’s Mosireen Media Collective, whose documentary work has been viewed millions of times. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, the London Review of Books and a recent article, published in Guernica magazine on the refugee crisis in Lesvos is one of their most shared pieces of the year.

He has a following of 20,000 people across social media. Omar is currently working on several non-fiction projects as well as a new novel set in New York, he’s a truly international writer.

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：France (Gallimard), Spain (Sexto Piso), Germany (Verlag Klaus Wagenbach), Italy (Guanda), Holland (Hollands Diep) and Denmark (Rebel With a Cause). US rights were sold by the agent to Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

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