“Weird and wild.a Kafkaesque tale of a modern Egypt.” - BookRiot “Offers a window into how the revolution failed.underlining, above all, the solidarities and divisions oppression creates, even as it allows for the stories of people who are otherwise often overlooked to be told. points to the errors in thinking that make change impossible.” - Music & Literature “Abdel Aziz illustrates how life in an authoritarian state is normalized not just by the government, but by the people.”- Think Progress
“Although this is a novel, if you follow events in today’s Egypt, it’s not far from the truth. It feels both fitting and faintly tragic that she had to resort to the literature of dark fantasy to convey it.” - Toronto Globe and Mail “Basma Abdel Aziz’s novel is not simply an exegesis on the state of her homeland, but a much more universal evocation of the relationships between hegemonic power and grassroots dissent. “Full of mysterious and troubling detail.Abdel Aziz delivers a striking portrait of an authority that claims all power while rejecting all responsibility, that forces people to hear and speak untruths and to embrace their own oppression.”- The Nation Perhaps with the publication of The Queue, the lesson will begin to finally sink in.” - NPR “An effective critique of always find a way to control other people in one way or another, should it suit them. It represents a new wave of dystopian and surrealist fiction from Middle Eastern writers who are grappling with the chaotic aftermath and stinging disappointments of the Arab Spring.”- The New York Times “The Queue.has drawn comparisons to Western classics like George Orwell’s 1984 and The Trial by Franz Kafka.
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