The Karnak

A novel revolves around the period charged between the War of Attrition and the 1973 War, where the narrator gets to know the pioneers 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 for Publishing Number of pages: 120 For more works by Naguib Mahfouz: Honorable Gentleman Kifah Tiba The Saman and Autumn Mirrors The Beggar Futility of Fate One Thousand and One Nights Palace of Longing Echoes of the Autobiography The Harafish Epic The Thief and the Dog The Heart of the Night The Military Zone Zuqaq al-Madan The Mirage Morning and Evening Talk Stories of Our Alley Khan al-Khalili Miramare Chatter over the Nile Shame Beginning and End Nostalgia of Convalescence The Living in Truth New Cairo Love Under the Rain Rodopis Celebrations of the Dome The Karnak The Road Between the Two Palaces