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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. A stunning novel by the widest-read Arab writer currently published in the U.S. The age of Nasser has ushered in enormous social change, and most of the middle-aged and middle-class sons and daughters of the old bourgeoisie find themselves trying to recreate the cozy, enchanted world they so dearly miss. One night, however, art and reality collide--with unforeseen circumstances.

A stunning novel by the widest-read Arab writer currently published in the U.S. The age of Nasser has ushered in enormous social change, and most of the middle-aged and middle-class sons and daughters of the old bourgeoisie find themselves trying to recreate the cozy, enchanted world they so dearly miss. One night, however, art and reality collide--with unforeseen circumstances.

It is the late sixties, and for the group of friends who meet night after night on the houseboat on the Nile, times have changed. Nasser has ushered in an age of enormous social change, and these middle-aged sons and daughters of the old bourgeoisie are left high and dry, to gather beneath the moonlight, to smoke and chat and inhabit a cosy and enchanted world. But one night Art and Reality collide with unforeseen consequences. In Adrift on the Nile, Mahfouz has given us a tale, at once thrilling and deeply serious, which exposes the human and artistic dilemmas of modern times On his houseboat on the Nile, civil servant Anis Zani is "master of ceremonies" for his nightly gathering of intellectual friends who share a pot pipe and question the complexities of life. Their reverie ends when a female journalist named Samara comes to analyze and document the group causing heated discussions on subjects such as purpose, duty, love, and morality. One night after getting high on the houseboat, the group embarks on a car trip and tragedy strikes. The friends take a vow of silence and the guilt begins to tear the group apart 1......Page 3 2......Page 6 3......Page 8 4......Page 13 5......Page 17 6......Page 20 7......Page 25 8......Page 32 9......Page 36 10......Page 41 11......Page 45 12......Page 49 13......Page 51 14......Page 54 15......Page 57 16......Page 62 17......Page 65 18......Page 69 CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR NAGUIB MAHFOUZ......Page 76 Contemporary Arabic novel by a Nobel Prize winning Egyptian.