Books like Adrift on the Nile
Anis Zaki, a civil servant in a pointless job, spends his nights smoking hashish with a circle of friends on a houseboat on the Nile.
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Miramar
At a faded pension in Alexandria kept by an old Greek woman, four men take turns telling the story of Zohra, the young country girl who works as the maid.
The Thief and the Dogs
Said Mahran walks out of a Cairo prison determined to take revenge on his wife, who left him for his accomplice, and on the mentor who betrayed his ideals.
Less Than Zero
A college student returns to 1980s Los Angeles and drifts through a world of cocaine, parties, and moral emptiness.
Season of Migration to the North
A young Sudanese man, back in his Nile village after seven years studying in England, finds a stranger living there, Mustafa Sa'eed, who has his own story of London.
The Rules of Attraction
Three college students orbit each other in a haze of parties, sex, and emotional vacancy at a New England liberal arts school.
Minor Detail
In 1949 Israeli soldiers rape and kill a Bedouin girl in the Negev, and decades later a woman in Ramallah becomes obsessed with the crime and tries to reach the place it happened.
Woman at Point Zero
Firdaus, a woman awaiting execution in a Cairo prison for killing a man, tells a psychiatrist the story of her life.
I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
A man who helps strangers end their lives narrates the stories of the clients and lovers he has known in a cool, cinematic novel of 1990s Seoul.
English, August
Agastya Sen, a young Indian civil servant raised on Western books and marijuana, is posted to a small, sweltering provincial town for a year's training, and does as little as he can.
Winter in the Blood
An unnamed young Blackfeet man drifts between his mother's ranch on the reservation and the bars of Montana towns, looking for the woman who took his rifle and for a reason to care.
The Yacoubian Building
The residents of a once-grand apartment block in downtown Cairo, from an ageing aristocrat to the doorman's son who joins the Islamists, live out the corruption of modern Egypt.
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
A gang of boys worship a sailor for embodying the heroic ideal, but when the sailor softens into domesticity, they decide he must be punished.