What a Wonderful Feeling
Utopia
By Ahmed Khaled Towfik
11 Nov, 2020
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Ahmed Khaled Towfik’s 2012 Utopia is a standalone dystopic novel. The English translation is by Chip Rossetti.
When synthetics replaced oil, Egypt’s wealthy took their riches and retreated to the walled city of Utopia. The vast majority of Egyptians — the Others — were consigned to short, unpleasant lives of poverty. They lived outside the walls, where no Utopian need ever think of them.
The young unnamed Utopian protagonist, bored to tears, thinks of the Others all the time.