![]() Taxi has been translated into English by Jonathan Wright and was published by Aflame Books in 2008. Taxi was reprinted 7 times in one year and it sold more than 75,000 copies in a country, Egypt, where 3,000 books sold is considered a success. Taxi is an important literary achievement because it has become a bestseller. However, in recent years a new generation of young Arab authors has begun an innovative literary movement known as al-Riwaya al-Gadida (The New Novel), linked to the phenomenon of bloggers. ![]() A tradition of writings in dialect has always existed in the Arab world, but colloquial Arabic has never achieved real literary approbation. The author recounts the stories of different taxi drivers he encounters and offers some insight into contemporary Cairo and Egypt. The book is dedicated "to the life that lives in the words of poor people." Taxi is about urban sociology in the Egyptian capital through the voices of taxi drivers. ![]() In October 2009, Al-Khamissi published his second novel, Noah’s Arch. Taxi is a collection of 58 short stories by Khaled Al Khamissi, first published in December 2006. Khaled Al-Khamissi is the author of the bestseller Taxi in which he threads together conversations with Cairo’s taxi drivers, celebrating Egyptian popular culture while also delivering a bitterly honest critique of Egyptian society. ![]()
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