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Adrift on the Nile Salwa; Fiction; A historical novel of social strife in medieval Egypt; FICTION / Literary In an era of unstoppableNaguib Mahfouz It is the late sixties, and for the group of friends who meet night after night on the houseboat on the Nile, times have changed. Nasser has ushered in an age of enormous social change, and these middle aged sons and daughters of the old bourgeoisie are left high and dry, to gather beneath the moonlight, to smoke and chat and inhabit a cosy and enchanted world. But one night art and reality collide with unforeseen consequences. In