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Share with friends: Permanent Link: Farah Ali follows her lauded story collection, People Want to Live, with a first novel, The River, the Town, that shares similar aspects of spare, unblinking incisiveness. Moreover, it is delivered in three distinct voices covering three decades, with results not unlike reading interlinked short stories. These multiple perspectives form an intricate narrative, further complicated by unreliable characters.
The history of corruption in modern Egypt is encapsulated in this thrilling saga of one family’s rise and fall. In the early decades of the 20th century, an intelligent and ambitious young man from a rural farming province in Egypt strikes out for the big city in order to make his fortune. Enterprising and quick to learn, Abbas Mahalawi insinuates himself into a plan to rob Jewish department store magnate Solomon Cicurel’s villa in the posh Cairo neighborhood of Zamalek.
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