A serious comic novel from the award-winning author of The Lodging House
Khairy Shalaby (1938-2011) was born in Kafr al-Shaykh in Egypt's
Nile Delta. He wrote seventy books, including novels, short
stories, historical tales, and critical studies. His novel The
Lodging House was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature
in 2003, and was published in English translation by the AUC Press
in 2006.
Adam Talib is assistant professor in the Department of Arab and
Islamic Civilizations at the American University in Cairo, and is
the translator of Mekkawi Said's Cairo Swan Song (AUC Press, 2009).
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