Adrift on the Nile - Hardcover

Naguib Mahfouz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385423225 ISBN 13: 9780385423229

Publisher: Doubleday, 1993

Synopsis

In a houseboat moored along the banks of the Nile, a group of disaffected middle-class Cairenes who gather each evening to socialize experience a tragedy that rips apart their friendships.

About this title

From the Publisher:

In the late 1960's a group of friends meet night after night on a house-boat moored along the banks of the Nile to escape the seriousness overtaking their country. But one night, art and reality collide--with unforeseen consequences. At once thrilling and serious, Adrift On The Nile is a tale that exposes the crisis of man--and artist--in modern times.

About the Author:

Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. His nearly forty novels and hundreds of short stories range from re-imaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. Of his many works, most famous is The Cairo Trilogy, consisting of Palace Walk (1956), Palace of Desire (1957), and Sugar Street (1957), which focuses on a Cairo family through three generations, from 1917 until 1952. In 1988, he was the first writer in Arabic to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in August 2006.

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0385423225
• ISBN 13: 9780385423229
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 167