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Empty CagesA Novel\nAuthor(s): Fatma Qandil, Adam Talib\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: American University in Cairo Press, United States\nImprint: Hoopoe\nISBN-13: 9781649033239, 978-1649033239\nSynopsis\nWinner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature\n\n\""Few writers possess Fatma's boldnessThe New Arab\n\nAn urgent and raw confessional of memory and family and all that is lost and won in one woman's lifetime\n\nThe discovery of an old tin of chocolates, its contents long ago devoured, marks the entry into this intimate story that reaches back through a lifetime of memories in search of self and home,with the relationship between mother and daughter at its core.\n\nFatma Qandildescribes,in startling and immersive prose,growingup in a middle-class Egyptianfamily, the youngest child and witness to their declining fortunes. Spanning the 1960s to the present day,her happy childhood melts away to reveal the fecklessness of her selfish older brothers, her fathers addiction, her mothers .