Ebook {Epub PDF} Adrift on the Nile by Naguib Mahfouz

3 rows · First published in , Naguib Mahfouz’s Adrift on the Nile is an atmospheric novel that /5(16).  · ADRIFT ON THE NILE. by Naguib Mahfouz ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 10, Ten young professionals spend their evenings drifting in a houseboat on the Nile until a senseless tragedy splits them apart—in a brief novel, the most clearly modernist work yet translated into English by the Nobel-winning author of The Cairo Trilogy. Probably best known for his Cairo Trilogy, the Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, , won the Nobel Prize for Literature in This novella was published in Arabic in with the English translation by Frances Liardet appearing in /5(16).

Chitchat on the Nile (Arabic: ثرثرة فوق النيل ‎) (Adrift on the Nile) is a film based on the novel Adrift on the Nile by Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz. The film is a member in Top Egyptian films list. Adrift on the Nile by Naguib Mahfouz and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru Adrift of the Nile tells a story of an Egyptian man in post-revolution times. Anis, the man character of the story, is a middle-aged male civil servant. And Naguib Mahfouz adventure through the darkness of 's Cairo will certainly not be forgotten, even with its flaws. This book radiates pre-modern Arab culture, and for that it is a read.

Adrift on the Nile (Thartharah fawqa al-Nīl, Arabic: ثرثرة فوق النيل ‎) is a book by Egyptian author and Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz. The novel was later made into a film, Chitchat on the Nile. 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. Overview. First published in , 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. 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. Adrift on the Nile: Author: Naguib Mahfouz: Genre: Novel: Written: (Eng. ) Length.