| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 215 pages)) |
| Summary |
Private Pleasures describes the three-day sex, drink, and drug binge of a thirty-something newsreader in the back streets and crumbling apartments of his native Giza, that pullulating mass of humanity that, like an ugly sister, sits opposite Cairo on the Nile's west bank. Pursued by an unshakable sense of impending doom that is only partly attributable to fear of retribution at the hands of a sadistic police officer with whose wife he is conducting a frenzied affair, the narrator observes, with fascinated horror, his own stumbling progress through a world of menace and wonder inhabited by philo |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
City and town life -- Fiction
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
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FICTION -- General.
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FICTION -- Romance -- Erotica.
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City and town life.
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| SUBJECT |
Jīzah (Egypt) -- Fiction
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| Subject |
Egypt -- Jīzah.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781617974663 |
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1617974668 |
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1306492548 |
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9781306492546 |
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9781617973642 |
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1617973645 |
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