Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    The Queue: A Novel
    Unavailable
    The Queue: A Novel
    Unavailable
    The Queue: A Novel
    Audiobook6 hours

    The Queue: A Novel

    Written by Basma Abdel Aziz

    Narrated by Mark Bramhall

    3.5/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this audiobook

    In a surreal, but familiar, vision of modern day Egypt, a centralized authority known as 'the Gate' has risen to power in the aftermath of the 'Disgraceful Events,' a failed popular uprising. Citizens are required to obtain permission from the Gate in order to take care of even the most basic of their daily affairs, yet the Gate never opens, and the queue in front of it grows longer.

    Citizens from all walks of life mix and wait in the sun: a revolutionary journalist, a sheikh, a poor woman concerned for her daughter's health, and even the brother of a security officer killed in clashes with protestors. Among them is Yehia, a man who was shot during the Events and is waiting for permission from the Gate to remove a bullet that remains lodged in his pelvis. Yehia's health steadily declines, yet at every turn, officials refuse to assist him, actively denying the very existence of the bullet.

    Ultimately it is Tarek, the principled doctor tending to Yehia's case, who must decide whether to follow protocol as he has always done, or to disobey the law and risk his career to operate on Yehia and save his life.

    Written with dark, subtle humor, The Queue describes the sinister nature of authoritarianism, and illuminates the way that absolute authority manipulates information, mobilizes others in service to it, and fails to uphold the rights of even those faithful to it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 12, 2016
    ISBN9781524752088
    Unavailable
    The Queue: A Novel
    Author

    Basma Abdel Aziz

    Basma Abdel Aziz is an award-winning writer, sculptor, and psychiatrist, specializing in treating victims of torture. A weekly columnist for Egypt’s al-Shorouk newspaper, she was named a Foreign Policy Global Thinker, and a Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute top influencer in the Arab world. A long-standing vocal critic of government oppression in Egypt, she is the winner of the Sawiris Cultural Award, the General Organization for Cultural Palaces Award, and the Ahmed Bahaa-Eddin Award. Her critically acclaimed debut novel The Queue won the English PEN Translation Award and has been translated into Turkish, Portuguese, Italian, and German. She lives in Cairo.

    Related to The Queue

    Related audiobooks

    Political Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Democracy In Israel Is Under Assault From A Government Of Extremists

      Jan 20, 2023

      Almost half of Israelis believe their country’s democracy is in grave danger. They are right. The assault upon its institutions is, to a large degree, the raison d’être for this administration. Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister once more and still f

      2 min read

    • Article

      In Israel, Pandemic Tests Democracy’s Immune System

      Mar 24, 2020

      Critics say Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has attempted a “coup” in the guise of protecting civilians from the novel coronavirus.

      4 min read

    • Article

      Israel Protesters Challenge Netanyahu But Are Silent On Palestinians

      Apr 2, 2023

      “Uncharted territory” is how many mainstream Western media outlets have described the unprecedented political crisis that has engulfed Benjamin Netanyahu’s rabid right- wing regime. Overnight, the protest movement that has been brewing for weeks in o

      3 min read

    • Article

      Israel Protesters Challenge Netanyahu But Are Silent On Palestinians

      Apr 2, 2023

      “Uncharted territory” is how many mainstream Western media outlets have described the unprecedented political crisis that has engulfed Benjamin Netanyahu’s rabid right- wing regime. Overnight, the protest movement that has been brewing for weeks in o

      3 min read

    • Article

      Israel Protesters Challenge Netanyahu But Are Silent On Palestinians

      Apr 2, 2023

      “Uncharted territory” is how many mainstream Western media outlets have described the unprecedented political crisis that has engulfed Benjamin Netanyahu’s rabid right- wing regime. Overnight, the protest movement that has been brewing for weeks in o

      3 min read

    • Article

      After Discharged Patient Dies on Hospital Grounds, Netizens Ask, ‘What About Compassion?’

      Jun 10, 2017

      "I could not sleep last night thinking about how this man was left to die in the grass on the compound of one of our major health institutions."

      6 min read

    • Article

      Something to Learn From

      May 21, 2020

      The author is the Washington bureau chief of Executive Intelligence Review news magazine The world was taken aback by the novel coronavirus outbreak that was first reported in Wuhan, capital city of Hubei Province in central China with a population o

      2 min read

    • Article

      COVID-19 Brings New Threat To Journalists: Jail

      May 13, 2020

      You may not have heard of Fatih Portakal or Chen Mei, Anna Shushpanova or Ruth Michaelson, Darvison Rojas or Yayesew Shimelis. But they’re living examples of how the COVID-19 pandemic is transforming age-old philosophical questions into real-life iss

      3 min read

    • Article

      At War Within and Without

      Aug 11, 2023

      At War Within and Without
      8 min read

    • Article

      At War Within and Without

      Aug 11, 2023

      At War Within and Without
      8 min read

    • Article

      Why Lebanese Protesters Are Risking A Return To The Streets

      May 6, 2020

      Lebanese protesters already angered by corruption in government are being driven by a new desperation to take risks amid the coronavirus pandemic.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Mary Sanchez: Trump Built This: Ghoulish Stories Of Unwanted Operations On Immigrants

      Sep 18, 2020

      The macabre story of the doctor dubbed by immigrants as the “uterus collector” swirled through Latino social media circles. It ignited Democratic condemnation of the Trump administration and sent a chill down the spine of all who heard it. If anyone

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Fine Line Between Pushing A Prime Minister And A Just Peace

      Apr 7, 2024

      Standing at a bus stop one snowy Sunday evening in Beijing, an elderly lady asked me, when recognising me as a foreigner, where I was from. Upon replying from South Africa, she went on to explain China’s compromising of its historic principle of non-

      3 min read

    • Article

      In Israel, Streets Swell With An Urgent Battle Cry: ‘Democracy!’

      Feb 17, 2023

      As protests go, there’s a difference between chants, over the years, of “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Bibi has got to go,” and repeated shouts of “Democracy!” This one word – pronounced “De-mo-crat-ya” in Hebrew – is the protest slogan of the moment. In recent

      5 min read

    • Article

      What Did EFF Achieve?

      Mar 29, 2023

      LAST week, the exaggerated success of the national shutdown, spearheaded by the EFF, was a topic of conversation. South Africa was aflood with coroners and post-morterm specialists as the political rigour mortis set in. A brilliantly penned online

      2 min read

    • Article

      Israel On The Brink

      Jul 25, 2023

      Israel On The Brink
      5 min read

    • Article

      Expecting Justice From A Broken System A Bridge Too Far

      Mar 24, 2024

      A RUBICON has been crossed in the war on Gaza, which has put all of humanity to shame. Not since World War II has an entire population been subjected to mass starvation at such a speed, having endured almost six months of continuous bombardment. Eigh

      4 min read

    Reviews for The Queue

    3.5/5

    3 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words