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020    9781649030764|q(paperback) 
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050 00 PJ7914.S475|bS2913 2021 
100 1  ʻAshmāwī, Ashraf 
240 10 سيدة الزمالك.|lEnglish. 
245 14 The lady of Zamalek /|cAshraf El-Ashmawi ; translated by  
       Peter Daniel. 
260    Cairo ;|aNew York :|bHoopoe,|c2021. 
300    393 p. |c21 cm. 
500    KH-AUL-8. 
520    "It was in the spring of 1927 that Cairo's attention was 
       captured by the shocking murder of prominent businessman 
       Solomon Cicurel in his Nile-side villa in the upscale 
       Zamalek district. It was a burglary that went wrong and 
       four culprits were soon arrested. Their trial was 
       concluded swiftly, their punishments were decisive, and 
       society breathed a sigh of relief. In Ashraf El-Ashmawi's 
       telling, however, there was a fifth accomplice, Abbas, who
       escaped back to his home in the countryside to lay low 
       until the murder trial blew over. He had not left empty-
       handed and had kept some documents from Cicurel's villa, 
       ones that he realized would lead him to a hidden safe. 
       Abbas hatched a plan to return to the capital, find the 
       safe, and make his fortune. The first step was to place 
       his sister Zeinab with Cicurel's widow, Paula. A web of 
       twists and intrigues run through the life of Abbas, in 
       what unfolds as a tale of modern Egypt-taking in the 
       Second World War, the 1952 revolution and the rise of 
       Gamal Abdel-Nasser, the 1967 war, the Sadat and Mubarak 
       eras-from the 1920s through to 1990"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
600 10 Cicurel, Solomon,|d1881-1927|vFiction 
650  0 Murder|zEgypt|zCairo|vFiction 
650  0 Burglars|xEgypt|zCairo|vFiction 
651  0 Egypt|xPolitics and government|y20th century|vFiction 
700 1  Daniel, Peter