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9781552454855

STARRED REVIEW
Debut Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

What I Know About You

By Éric Chacour, Translated by Pablo Strauss

Eric Chacour’s debut is an emotional family story, a tumultuous queer romance and a richly textured portrait of ’80s and ’90s Cairo—with an intriguing narrative twist.

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Review of ‘What I Know About You’

In his beguiling debut novel, What I Know About You, Éric Chacour delicately explores the complicated circumstances that create distance between people, and the limits of what anyone can know about those they love.

In 1980s Cairo, Tarek, a doctor from a Levantine Christian family, begins…

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