The Booklist: The Bestsellers

AUC Press and Diwan Bookstore share their bestsellers 

Compiled by  Alia Ibrahim 

  Egypt Today’s weekly book corner brings you the latest from the literary world. Diwan Bookstore 1984 by George Orwell (Classical Fiction) Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell’s narrative is timelier than ever. 1984 presents a startling and haunting vision of the world, so powerful that it is completely convincing from start to finish. Adultery by Paulo Coelho (Fiction) A woman around her thirties begins to question the routine and predictability of her days. In everybody’s eyes, she has a perfect life: a solid and stable marriage, a loving husband, sweet and well-behaved children and a job as a journalist she can't complain about. However, she can no longer bear the necessary effort to fake happiness when all she feels in life is an enormous apathy. All that changes when she encounters an ex-boyfriend from her adolescence, who has become a successful politician. Definitive Book of Body Language by Allan Pease and Barbara Pease (General Mind, Body & Spirit) This international bestseller reveals the secrets of nonverbal communication to give you confidence and control in any face-to-face encounter—from making a great first impression and acing a job interview to finding the right partner. Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom (Fiction) Eddie, a veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park, dies in a tragic accident on his 83rd birthday, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever. Reclaim Your Heart by Yasmin Mogahed (Spirituality) Reclaim Your Heart is not just a self-help book. It is a manual about the journey of the heart in and out of the ocean of this life. It is a book about how to keep your heart from sinking to the depths of that ocean, and what to do when it does. It is a book about redemption, about hope, about renewal. Every heart can heal, and each moment is created to bring us closer to that transformative return.   AUC Press Brooklyn Heights by Miral al-Tahawy Translated by Samah Selim (Arabic Literature) Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, shortlisted for the 2011 Arabic Booker prize. Hind, newly arrived in New York with her eight-year-old son, several suitcases of unfinished manuscripts, and hardly any English, finds a room in a Brooklyn teeming with people like her who dream of becoming writers. As she discovers the various corners of her new home, they conjure up parallel memories from her childhood and her small Bedouin village in the Nile Delta.   The Woman from Tantoura A Novel of Palestine by Radwa Ashour Translated by Kay Heikkinen (Arabic Literature) Palestine. For most of us, the word brings to mind a series of confused images and disjointed associations—massacres, refugee camps, UN resolutions, settlements, terrorist attacks, war, occupation, checkered kuffiyehs and suicide bombers, a seemingly endless cycle of death and destruction. This novel does not shy away from such painful images, but it is first and foremost a powerful human story, following the life of a young girl from her days in the village of al-Tantoura in Palestine up to the dawn of the new century.   Ottoman Egypt and the Emergence of the Modern World 1500–1800 by Nelly Hanna (History and Biography) A revisionist approach to the period of world history between 1500 and 1800, away from Eurocentric accounts of early modern globalization to a more complex, multi-centered view of world transformation, with the focus on Egypt. Mrs. Tsenhor A Female Entrepreneur in Ancient Egypt by Koenraad Donker van Heel (Archaeology and Ancient Egypt) Tsenhor was born about 550 BC in the city of Thebes (Karnak). She died some sixty years later, having lived through the reigns of Amasis II, Psamtik III, Cambyses II, Darius I and perhaps even Psamtik IV. By carefully retracing the events of her life as they are recorded in papyri now kept in museums in London, Paris, Turin, and Vienna, the author creates the image of a proud and independent businesswoman who made her own decisions in life.   Check back every Tuesday to see what’s new on the list and hot off the press. You can find more books at AUC Press by visiting their website or Facebook page. You can find more books at Diwan Bookstore by visiting their website or Facebook page.