This reissue of the late Waguih Ghali's only novel makes us mourn his loss all the more keenly. A plainspoken writer of consummate wryness, grace, and humor, the egyptian author chronicles the lives of a polyglot cairene...This reissue of the late Waguih Ghali's only novel makes us mourn his loss all the more keenly. A plainspoken writer of consummate wryness, grace, and humor, the egyptian author chronicles the lives of a polyglot cairene upper crust, shortly after the fall of king Farouk, who are thoroughly unprepared to change their neo-feudal ways.