Synopses & Reviews
"A plainspoken writer of consummate wryness, grace and humor, the Egyptian author chronicles the lives of a polyglot Cariene upper crust, shortly after the fall of King Farouk and thoroughly unprepared to change its neo-feudal ways... This is the best book to date about post-Farouk Egypt." -- Los Angeles Times
"Ghali's novel reproduces a cultural state of shock with great accuracy and great humor." -- The Nation