New Cairo

Mohjoub Abdel Daeem faces an economic crisis that makes him angry at his social situation and prepared to do anything that helps him enrich himself and jump to higher and more prestigious positions, even if that costs him a sham marriage to his neighbor Ehsan, the secret mistress of the "Pasha," so that they have a safe way to meet intimately, believing in his moral principle that says in a blunt interview with colleagues who believe in the Islamic current or the socialist doctrine to embody the political movement and class suffering in its ugliest manifestations. Author: Naguib Mahfouz Number of pages: 224