Set mainly in
a once-stylish building in Cairo, this book is about the lives of people whose
fates gradually intertwine. The story doesn’t show any of them in a good light
but despite that, the reader is sympathetic and drawn in because of the fate
dealt to them by Egypt’s corrupt and cruel regime.
It is a
society dominated by sex, money, power and religion, all dealt with
sensitively. The hardest bit was remembering who was who but there is a ‘cast
of characters’ at the beginning to help with the Egyptian names.
I enjoyed this book from start to finish
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