Love on the Pyramid Plateau

Author: Naguib Mahfouz

One of Mahfouz's most famous short story collections, and the most adapted for cinema and television, with five of its eight stories transformed into four films and a television series. In these stories, symbolism and realism are astonishingly intertwined, blurring the line between reality and imagination. Each story presents a complete life, leaving the reader without the usual feeling of brevity found in short stories. They depict a scene of the heavy impact on Egyptian society during the latter half of the 1970s, resulting from the transition to the capitalist system, and all the economic hardship and moral decay it brought upon the middle class amidst a struggle of competitiveness and opportunism.