{"product_id":"adrift-on-the-nile","title":"Adrift on the Nile","description":"First published in 1966, Naguib Mahfouz's \u003ci\u003eAdrift on the Nile\u003c\/i\u003e is an atmospheric novel that dramatizes the rootlessness of Egypt's cosmopolitan middle class. Anis Zani is a bored and drug-addicted civil servant who is barely holding on to his job. Every evening he hosts a gathering on a houseboat on the Nile, where he and a motley group of cynical and aimless friends share a water pipe full of kif, a mixture of tobacco and marijuana. When a young female journalist--an \"alarmingly serious person\"--joins them and begins secretly documenting their activities, the group's harmony starts disintegrating, culminating in a midnight joyride that ends in tragedy.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0385423330\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780385423335\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Mahfouz, Naguib\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Jan 1994)","offer_id":46099730038981,"sku":"9780385423335","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780385423335.jpg?v=1776644383","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/adrift-on-the-nile","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}