Adrift on the Nile Salwa; Fiction; A historical novel of social strife in medieval Egypt; FICTION / Literary Suitable for those over the

Suitable for those over the age of 8 years

they are leading the way

Ali and Injy set about rebuilding

we are given broad glimpses of the larger picture of the world outside through Nahid's work as an archaeologist and Omar's as a journalist

Here they are in marriage

Adrift on the Nile Salwa; Fiction; A historical novel of social strife in medieval Egypt; FICTION / Literary Suitable for those over theNaguib Mahfouz It is the late sixties, and for the group of friends who meet night after night on the houseboat on the Nile, times have changed. Nasser has ushered in an age of enormous social change, and these middle aged sons and daughters of the old bourgeoisie are left high and dry, to gather beneath the moonlight, to smoke and chat and inhabit a cosy and enchanted world. But one night art and reality collide with unforeseen consequences. In