Adrift on the Nile

Najaib Maohfauoz

Adrift on the Nile
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Country
United States
Published
1 May 1994
Pages
167
ISBN
9780385423335

Adrift on the Nile

Najaib Maohfauoz

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.

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