North Africa
Egypt
Contemporary
Arabic
Fiction
A cast of characters living in a decaying Cairo apartment building stand in for Egyptian society: a corrupt aristocrat, a Coptic Christian, a Islamist, a journalist, a gay man living in a rooftop shack.
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The bestselling novel in the Arab world in decades; an unflinching diagnosis of Egyptian society's corruption
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editorial-summarynot primary textA cast of characters living in a decaying Cairo apartment building stand in for Egyptian society: a corrupt aristocrat, a Coptic Christian, a Islamist, a journalist, a gay man living in a rooftop shack. The bestselling novel in the Arab world in decades; an unflinching diagnosis of Egyptian society's corruption
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