Author: Waguih Ghali Year: 1964 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction
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ISBNs: 9780941533812 9780804170741 0941533816 0804170746 |
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This reissue of the late Waguih Ghali's only novel makes us mourn his loss all the more keenly. A plainspoken writer of consummate wryness, grace, and humor, the Egyptian author chronicles the lives of a polyglot Cairene upper crust, shortly after the fall of King Farouk, who are thoroughly unprepared to change their neo-feudal ways. This is the best book to date about post-Farouk Egypt.-Sylvie Drake, Los Angeles Times
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