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Adrift on the Nile

by Mahfuz,Najib frey50
Additional authors: Translator -- Liardet, Frances
Published by : Doubleday (New York) , 1993 Physical details: 167 p. ISBN:0-385-42322-5.
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For the thousands of devoted readers of Naguib Mahfouz's The Cairo Trilogy, Adrift on the Nile - first published in Arabic in 1966 - will be an exciting and dramatic change of pace. In elegant and economic prose, Mahfouz creates - out of the simplest of plots - a telling commentary on human nature. It is the late sixties, and for the group of friends who meet night after night on a houseboat moored along the banks