{"product_id":"2940169109863","title":"The City Always Wins: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA debut audiobook that captures the experience of the Egyptian revolution like no news report could\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Omar Hamilton brings vividly to life the failed revolution of 2011 on the streets of Cairo, in all its youthful bravery and naive utopianism.\" amp;mdash;J. M. Coetzee\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe City Always Wins\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel from the front line of a revolution. Deeply enmeshed in the 2011 uprising in Tahrir Square, Mariam and Khalil move through Cairo's surging streets and roiling political underground, their lives burning with purpose, their city alive in open revolt, the world watching, listening, as they chart a course into an unknown future. They areamp;mdash;they believeamp;mdash;fighting a new kind of revolution; they are players in a new epic in the making.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the communal highs of night battles against the police to the solitary lows of postrevolutionary exile, Omar Robert Hamilton's bold debut cuts to the psychological heart of one the key chapters in the twenty-first century. Arrestingly visual, intensely lyrical, uncompromisingly political, and brutal in its poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe City Always Wins\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel not just about Egypt's revolution, but about a global generation that tried to change the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150212546800,"sku":"2940169109863","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169109863_p0.jpg?v=1763672868","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169109863","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}