Set against the background of what was then the world's most cosmopolitan city this revised and expanded edition of "Memories of Alexandria" tells the story of a Spanish-Egyptian family from the years immediately after the Spanish Civil War to Egypt's decades of revolution, unrest and conflict between the late forties and the mid-sixties. The story line runs incessantly back and forth, embracing, like a lively journey, past and future, portraying historical accounts and colourful, three dimensional characters from all walks of life with a philosophical, cynical and cranky approach to the...