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From Egypt's most popular novelist--an absorbing, exuberant, and powerfully moving story of a family swept up by social unrest in post-World War II Cairo. Abd el-Aziz Gaafar, formerly a well-respected landowner now in the grip of penury, moved his family to Cairo and took on menial work at the Automobile Club--a place of refuge and luxury for its European members, a place where Egyptians may appear only as servants. Alku, the lifelong Nubian servant of Egypt's corrupt king, runs the show in all but name. The servants, a squabbling, humorous, and deeply human group, live in a perpetual state of fear: beaten for their mistakes, their wages dependent on Alku's whims. When Abd el-Aziz's pride gets the better of him and he stands up for himself, his death--as much from shame as from his injuries after Alku has him beaten--leaves his widow further impoverished, and two of his sons obliged to work in the Club. As the family is drawn into the turbulent politics--public and...

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Author

Al Aswany, Alaa; Harris, Russell

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781101875797

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4 / 5 (387 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14