A review by halibut
The Book of Cairo: A City in Short Fiction by

5.0

My favourite collection of short fiction I've read this year. Lots of the stories (or my favourites anyway) have a mix of mundanity, humour and weirdness. My favourite was Into the Emptiness, the sense of unreality experienced by the narrator living on a city fringe was really convincing. Hamada Al-Ginn is a brutal and funny bit of satire, very keen to read that writers other work.