Beginning and End - Naguib Mahfouz

The mother suffers in supporting her four children after the father's death, and faces a severe economic crisis that drops the family to the lower floor of the same building, so the eldest son Hassan is unemployed and turns into a singer and thug who accompanies dancers, while Hassanein proposes to a girl from a wealthy family in pursuit of his class ambition, and Hussein moves to work in another province trying to support his family, and Nafisa works as a seamstress to help everyone, then her fate collapses into prostitution after being betrayed by her first lover. Number of pages: 422 Publisher: Diwan House