Two books! These are two novellas by the Nobel Prize winning Egyptian writer (writing in Arabic) one from the 1960s and 1970s. He’s most famous for a handful of “modern” Egyptian novels like Adrift on the Nile as it tracks a kind of metropolitan Egyptian culture, his trilogy of contemporary 20th century novels — The Cairo Trilogy. He also wrote a less well-known trilogy of “ancient Egypt” as well. The Search This short novel begins with a young man talking with his single mother about this unknown […]