Cairo, January 1952. Egypt is at a critical point in its modern
history, struggling to throw off the yoke of the seventy-year
British occupation and its corrupt royalist allies. Hamza is a
committed young radical, his goal to build a secret armed brigade
to fight for freedom, independence, and national self-esteem.
Fawziya is a woman with a mission too, keen to support the cause.
Among the ashes of the city love may grow, but at a time of
national struggle what place do personal feelings have beside the
greater love for a shackled homeland? In this finely crafted novel,
Yusuf Idris, best known as the master of the Arabic short story,
brings to life not only some of the most human characters in modern
Arabic fiction but the soul of Cairo itself and the soul of a
national consciousness focused on liberation. "Like the Russian
aristocrats of Chekhov, the provincial bourgeoisie of Flaubert, or
the Ibo villagers of Achebe, Idris raises his authentic characters
into convincing types within their context: he makes us live their
agonies and hopes." Ferial Ghazoul
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