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Adrift on the Nile 
by Naguib Mahfouz; Translated by Frances Liardet 
 - New York  Doubleday  1993 
 - 167 p. 
<br/><br/>  	 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0-385-42322-5 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Egypt --Social life and customs --Fiction<br/>Nile River --Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>892.736 Mah   14