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Publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
ISBN 13 | 9780385423335 |
ISBN 10 | 385423330 |
Author | Naguib Mahfouz |
Language | English |
Book Description | 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. |
Publication Date | 19940101 |
Number of Pages | 176 |
Adrift on the Nile