Private pleasures / Hamdy el-Gazzar ; translated by Humphrey Davies.

Private Pleasures describes the three-day sex, drink, and drug binge of a thirty-something newsreader in the back streets and crumbling apartments of his native Giza, that pullulating mass of humanity that, like an ugly sister, sits opposite Cairo on the Nile's west bank. Pursued by an unshakab...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Jazzār, Ḥamdī
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cairo : The American University in Cairo Press, 2013.
Subjects:	Jīzah (Egypt) > Fiction. City and town life > Fiction. City and town life. Egypt > Jīzah. Fiction.