First this is really a 3.5 star book.I found my self a bit flummoxed by this book as I started. This was in no fault of the book or Al Aswany, but do to my own ignorance of the history of Egypt. This made the expository business of world building very difficult for me to grasp, as there is some degr...
I’ve been reading on this book for months and months. Did I drag the read out too long? Is that why the book did not captivate me as I’d anticipated? The book follows the lives of several people who all have in common one thing: they all live in the same building in Cairo. Though the story intertwi...