Miramar
A highly charged, tightly written tale of intersecting lives that provides us with both an engaging and powerful story as well as a vivid portrait of life in Egypt in the late 1960's.
A highly charged, tightly written tale of intersecting lives that provides us with both an engaging and powerful story as well as a vivid portrait of life in Egypt in the late 1960's.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780385264785 (038526478X)
Publish date: December 14th 1992
Publisher: Anchor
Pages no: 183
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Media Tie In,
Movies,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
20th Century,
Nobel Prize,
Egypt,
African Literature,
Egyptian Literature
This is above all a social novel, a cross section of how people lived and experienced their relationships to society in Alexandria in the 1960s; and a political novel, since everything in it is very much affected by the rearrangements of power that were taking place, and by questions of who's gainin...