Subtle crease to lower right corner of front wrapper, else a fresh, very Near Fine copy. First English-language edition of the Egyptian Nobel Prize-winner's novel, centered around the interlocking lives of a group of residents living in a hotel in Alexandria.
197 in Heinemann's African Writers Series. Subject: Africa, Modern Fiction, Postcolonial Literature.
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