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The Picnic at Sakkara (Paperback)
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The Picnic at Sakkara (Paperback)

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Paperback 240 Pages / Published: 16/04/2009
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Synopsis
The setting of The Picnic at Sakkara, a delightful comedy, is Egypt in the days of King Farouk. Edgar Perry, a lecturer at Cairo University, finds himself in a world on all sides less well-ordered than himself. His own wife deceives herself, it not him; his illustrious private pupil, Tureiya Pasha, encourages him to believe in something like a mirage; his students, in the intervals of hearing from him about the beauties of George Eliot, take part in violent political demonstrations; and one of them, Muawiya Khaslat, an attractive rogue hardly able to reconcile his devotion to Perry with his membership of the Moslem Brotherhood, almost turns the picnic into a tragedy.Newby's Egypt is more than credible and wholly entertaining.'The light but intelligent novel is always a rare and attractive bird. Such a novel is The Picnic at Sakkara - a book that combines gaiety and shrewdness, a sense of fun and a sense of drama, that treats an important and absorbing subject in a light-hearted and light-handed way.' Daily Mail'His most successful novel.' Times

Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571251117
Number of pages: 240
Weight: 260 g
Dimensions: 126 x 198 x 17 mm
Edition: Main

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