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Adrift on the Nile

Adrift on the Nile

Mahfouz, Naguib

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0385423330
ISBN13: 9780385423335
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Jan 1 1994
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.58 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
First published in 1966, Naguib Mahfouz's Adrift on the Nile is an atmospheric novel that dramatizes the rootlessness of Egypt's cosmopolitan middle class. Anis Zani is a bored and drug-addicted civil servant who is barely holding on to his job. Every evening he hosts a gathering on a houseboat on the Nile, where he and a motley group of cynical and aimless friends share a water pipe full of kif, a mixture of tobacco and marijuana. When a young female journalist--an alarmingly serious person--joins them and begins secretly documenting their activities, the group's harmony starts disintegrating, culminating in a midnight joyride that ends in tragedy.

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