The Automobile Club Of Egypt

The Automobile Club Of EgyptFrom the most popular Egyptian novelist of his generation ( a suitable heir to the mantle worn by Naguib Mahfouz "The Guardian"), a rollicking, exuberant and powerfully moving story of a family swept up by social unrest in post World War II Cairo. Once a respected landowner, Abd el Aziz Gaafar fell into penury and moved his family to Cairo, where he was forced into menial work at the Automobile Club a refuge of colonial luxury for its European

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