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author: Aswany, Alaa Al

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Language: English
Genre: Thrillers
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publishing year: 2006
Length: 09:13 Hours

Book summary:

Cairo, Egypt. Zaki el Dessouki encounters the inhabitants of the building where he shares an apartment with his sister. An aristocratic womanizer, a voluptuous abandoned wife, a cleric, a homosexual soldier, and others reveal political corruption, sexual repression, and religious extremism in the modern Arab world.


 
 
 
 
 

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