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Adrift on the Nile (Thartharah fawqa al-Nīl, Arabic: ثرثرة فوق النيل) is a 1966 book by Egyptian author and Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz. The novel was later made into a 1971 film, Chitchat on the Nile. It was translated from Arabic into English in 1993 by Frances Liardet and published by Doubleday.
- Najīb Maḥfūẓ, Frances Liardet
- 1966
4 de mar. de 2011 · A review of Mahfouz's novel about a group of aimless friends who smoke kif and dream of ancient times on a houseboat on the Nile. The novel offers a glimpse of a more peaceful time in Egypt and a contrast with the current turmoil.
- Geoff Wisner
1 de may. de 2021 · Adrift on the Nile. by. Maḥfūẓ, Najīb, 1911-2006. Publication date. 1993. Topics. Egypt -- Social life and customs -- Fiction, Nile River -- Fiction. Publisher. New York : Anchor Books.
Anis Zani is a bored and drug-addicted civil servant who is barely holding on to his job. Every evening he hosts a gathering on a houseboat on the Nile, where he and a motley group of cynical and aimless friends share a water pipe full of kif, a mixture of tobacco and marijuana.
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Adrift on the Nile by Naguib Mahfouz | Goodreads. Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Kindle $12.99. Rate this book. Adrift on the Nile. Naguib Mahfouz, Francis Liardet (Translator) 3.76. 9,403 ratings1,124 reviews. A stunning novel by the widest-read Arab writer currently published in the U.S.
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30 de ene. de 2013 · Transworld, Jan 30, 2013 - Fiction - 176 pages. This moving and perceptive story centres upon a group of disaffected middle-class Cairenes who gather on a house-boat on the River Nile every...
First published in 1966, Naguib Mahfouz’s Adrift on the Nile is an atmospheric novel that dramatizes the rootlessness of Egypt’s cosmopolitan middle class. Anis Zani is a bored and...
