Down to the Sea

Published
Sep 1991
Main Genre
General Fiction General Fiction
Pages
220

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This is the story of the cemetery south of Cairo, known as the City of the Dead and of the aspirations of the individuals that live there. Sayyid has lived through the great political events of modern Egypt. A son of the cemetery he is an educated man who in his youth became involved in the revolutionary struggle but now he lives his life disillusioned, feeling that this dream of freedom might never be realized.

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Sep 1991 Quartet Books (UK) ISBN13 9780704327771 ISBN10 0704327775
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