Cairo Modern by Naguib Mahfouz

Cairo Modern

Naguib Mahfouz

242 pages first pub 1945 (editions)

fiction challenging reflective medium-paced
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In Naguib Mahfouz's suspenseful novel a bitter and ambitious nihilist, a beautiful and impoverished student, and a corrupt official engage in a doomed ménage à trois.Cairo of the 1930s is a place of vast social and economic inequities. It is also ...

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