Farewell to Alexandria
Original title: Short stories
earliest edition we have, 2000 American University in Cairo Press, 2004 paperback 224 pages
"The eleven short stories in this book take us back to an Alexandria past, the cosmopolitan city as it was experienced by the author in the years before, during, and following the Second World War. Against a backdrop of major events in Alexandria's history, from the halcyon days of the late 1930s, through the alarums of the War, to the 1952 Revolution and the dispersion of almost the entire foreign community of the c...
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