First published in 1966, Naguib Mahfouz's Adrift on the Nile is an atmospheric novel that dramatizes the rootlessness of Egypt's cosmopolitan middle class. Anis Zani is a bored and drug-addicted civil servant who is barely holding on to his job. Every evening he hosts a gathering on a houseboat on the Nile, where he and a motley group of cynical and aimless friends share a water pipe full of kif, a mixture of tobacco and marijuana. When a young female journalist--an -alarmingly serious person---joins them and begins secretly documenting their activities, the group's harmony starts...
First published in 1966, Naguib Mahfouz's Adrift on the Nile is an atmospheric novel that dramatizes the rootlessness of Egypt's cosmopolitan m...
1940. As German bombs fall on Southampton, the residents flee to the villages. Ellen Parr finds a girl sleeping, unclaimed at the back of a bus. When Ellen takes Pamela into her home the child cracks open the past she thought she had escaped and the future she and her husband had dreamed for themselves. Love grows, but with the end of war comes the realization that Pamela was never theirs to keep.
1940. As German bombs fall on Southampton, the residents flee to the villages. Ellen Parr finds a girl sleeping, unclaimed at the back of a bus. When ...