This is a story about a family in postwar Egypt, late 1940s maybe. They were landowners & had some wealth living in Northern Egypt but had to sell off the land and lost their wealth. They moved to Cairo where the father found a job at the Automobile Club there--it was a club for the wealthy foreigners and the royalty of Egypt. The story revolves around this family & the struggles working at the club and their lives. Is a really good and interesting read about the time and politics of Egypt. It does take a while to get the story moving and I am still not sure what the beginning with a modern writer being visited by characters he has written about have to do with this story. It took a few weeks for me to finish this book & that beginning was confusing and never referred to again so maybe my memory of it is a little off but I thought it was off when I started it too. Otherwise a good and interesting story.
There is 1 WL for this book on PBS so I will probably post & mail off at some point.
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