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One of Mahfouz’s most famous short story collections and the most widely adapted for film and television, five of the eight stories have been adapted into four films and a television series. In these stories, symbolism blends with realism in an astonishing way, blurring the line between reality and fantasy in each fully fleshed-out life story, without the usual simplistic short story feel. The stories depict the heavy impact of the transition to capitalism on Egyptian society in the latter half of the 1970s, with all the economic hardship and moral decline it brought upon the middle class amidst a maelstrom of competitiveness and opportunism.
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