ABSTRACT

First published in 1996. The writer was in Cairo in the period with which the novel deals. None the less, all the characters and all the events are the product of his imagination. Furthermore, incidents portraying real personalities mentioned in the novel are also fictional.

chapter |17 pages

August 1956

chapter |12 pages

October – November 1956

chapter |12 pages

November – December 1957

chapter |12 pages

February – March 1958

chapter |8 pages

May 1958

chapter |11 pages

November 1958

chapter |10 pages

April 1959

chapter |10 pages

June 1959

chapter |13 pages

September 1959

chapter |15 pages

November 1959

chapter |14 pages

December 1959

chapter |12 pages

February 1960

chapter |15 pages

April 1960

chapter |7 pages

August 1960

chapter |9 pages

September – October 1960

chapter |11 pages

December 1960

chapter |16 pages

February 1961

chapter |11 pages

April 1961

chapter |8 pages

June 1961

chapter |5 pages

August 1961

chapter |13 pages

September – October 1961