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The book follows Anis Zani who smokes kief every night with a group of friends on a houseboat on the Nile. Anis works as a civil servant but soon finds his life encumbered by his drug use. The book explores nihilism and spiritual emptiness.
- Najīb Maḥfūẓ, Frances Liardet
- 1966
1 de mai. 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
4 de mar. de 2011 · Adrift on the Nile, one of the brief novels Mahfouz wrote in the ’60s after completing his massive Cairo Trilogy, is an exception to the rule and a good introduction to his work. Translated from the Arabic by Frances Liardet, it was published by Anchor Books in 1994.
- Geoff Wisner
A group of friends meet weekly on a Nile houseboat to smoke hookah and discuss philosophy: lots of societal obligations, gender roles, absurdity, and nihilism. It is staged and written like a play, and that style works very well throughout the short book (my copy was just over 160 pages).
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10 de fev. de 1993 · Ten young professionals spend their evenings drifting in a houseboat on the Nile until a senseless tragedy splits them apart—in a brief 1966 novel, the most clearly modernist work yet translated into English by the Nobel-winning author of The Cairo Trilogy.
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 drug-addicted civil servant who is barely holding on to his job.
30 de jan. de 2013 · 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 evening...
