Adrift on the Nile
by Naguib Mahfouz; Translated by Frances Liardet
- New York Doubleday 1993
- 167 p.
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
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Egypt --Social life and customs --Fiction Nile River --Fiction