The Completely True Tales of Um Mimi and Sharawi the Adulterer

Author(s): Fadl, Belal,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 15/12/2025,
Pagination: ,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Dar Arab,
Published By: Dar Arab,
Book Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945),
Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 19
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781788711142

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When a seventeen-year-old flees his violent father and heads to Cairo to chase his dream of breaking into the arts, he ends up in a crumbling flat with a mercurial landlady and her volatile son. Set in the early 1990s, The Completely True Tales of Um Mimi and Sharawi the Adulterer is a sharply observed, darkly comic coming-of-age novel about ambition, survival, and the strange intimacies forged by necessity. Longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, this cult-favourite debut by Egyptian screenwriter, journalist, and satirist Belal Fadl appears in English for the first time, in a vivid translation by Osama Hammad.

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