Women of Karantina: A Novel Manners midmorning pick-me-up

midmorning pick-me-up

Initially described as a comedy

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Women of Karantina: A Novel Manners midmorning pick-me-upNael Eltoukhy Back in the dog days of the early twenty first century a pair of lovebirds fleeing a murder charge in Cairo pull in to Alexandria's main train station. Fugitives, friendless, their young lives blighted at the root, Ali and Injy set about rebuilding, and from the coastal city's arid soil forge a legend, a kingdom of crime, a revolution: Karantina. Through three generations of Grand Guignol insanity, Nael Eltoukhys sly psychopomp of a