Talking above the Nile

A brief about the novel The employee at the Ministry of Health "Anis Zaki" raises a memorandum to the general manager, then it becomes clear that he wrote it with a blank pen in a state of unconsciousness, and two days are deducted from him, and he returns to the floating house overlooking the Nile that his friends rent for staying up every evening smoking hashish and mocking all principles. However, this group of nihilist intellectuals is shaken when "Samara," the young journalist, invades their world, confronting them with their degeneracy and the faltering of their ideas, before the disaster occurs that turns the floating house's world upside down. The novel was published in 1966 and sparked a major political controversy, then was considered a prophetic vision of the 1967 defeat that followed shortly after its publication, and it was adapted into cinema in 1971. Author: Naguib Mahfouz Publication date: 2022 Book category: Short stories and novels Publisher: Diwan for Publishing Number of pages: 160 Format: Paperback