قسمة الغرماء

Abboud Girgis has to emigrate from Egypt, leaving his wife Maram and their only son Magid behind. The little money he sends them passes through an old friend, the actress Mohra Abdel Galil, who has separated from her husband, the army officer Mustafa Nour al-Din. Mohra gives up acting, puts on the veil and loses her life's savings to a money-investment scheme; Mustafa is pensioned off, since October was the last war, and finds refuge only in the mosque. Through the voices of these defeated people, emigrants abroad and strangers at home, the novel takes on the uneasy relations between Muslims and Copts and asks what brought Egypt to this point.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

271 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Migration, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Egypt

First published

2004 by Dar al-Saqi

Author's age

60 when first published

ISBN

9781855164628 (original)