The Karnak - Naguib Mahfouz

The Cairo Trilogy revolves around the tense period between the War of Attrition and the 1973 War, where the narrator gets to know the patrons of the Karnak Café, and the university youth who disappear for periods and reappear, lacking ambition and dreams as a result of the mistakes of the critical period. The novel was adapted into a film in 1975. Author: Naguib Mahfouz. Publisher: Diwan Publishing House. Number of pages: 120.