Description
In this novel, titled after the Qashmar Café in Abbassia, Naguib Mahfouz recounts the relationship between five friends from the neighborhood: two from eastern Abbassia, where the wealthy of the past lived in palaces; two from the more modest western Abbassia; and the fifth, the narrator, who many consider Mahfouz to represent himself. Their class affiliations, financial circumstances, and intellectual and political views differ, yet they are united by a friendship that brings them together and carries them through time. Through this long-standing relationship, Mahfouz documents the many transformations that Egyptian society witnessed during a period extending from World War I to the time of Sadat.
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