Adrift on the Nile
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168 pages. Originally published in 1966 in Arabic; translated to English in 1993. Living on a houseboat on the Nile with nowhere to go. Waterpipes and hemp. Clean throughout....
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168 pages. Originally published in 1966 in Arabic; translated to English in 1993. Living on a houseboat on the Nile with nowhere to go. Waterpipes and hemp. Clean throughout.
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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 disintegrating, culminating in a midnight joyride that ends in tragedy.Product Info
ISBN: 0385423330
ISBN-13: 9780385423335
Publisher: Anchor Books Doubleday
Year: 1993
Type: Used
Binding: Softcover
First Edition
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