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Cairo by Womersley, Chris is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Cairo about?
'Who wants to be the same as everyone else? You don't want to be ordinary, do you?' Melbourne, 1986 Tom always imagined he was adopted. At seventeen, he flees ordinariness in small-town Australia for the city and a run-down block named Cairo. There he meets Max Cheever. Enigmatic, artistic, anarchic: he liberates Tom from the bourgeois aspiration of university and draws him into his circle of dropouts and dreamers. Through the haze of parties and politics, Tom glimpses a darker side to their vie bohème. Falling under Max's spell—and in love with his wife—he is offered an extraordinary chance: to join them in the greatest art heist of the twentieth century. Among art dealers, thieves and forgers, Tom trusts only in Max. This is his family now. But of all this summer's lessons, the cruellest will be telling what is real from what is fake. In a rush of first love, risk and a search for belonging, Chris Womersley's third novel paints a two-faced...
Who reads Cairo?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Womersley, Chris
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781848663916
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.54 / 5 (513 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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