| Title | : | Adrift on the Nile |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Naguib Mahfouz |
| Release | : | 1993-01-01 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Literary Fiction, Books, Fiction & Literature |
| Size | : | 2205124 |
| 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. |
