A collection of short stories by the author of "The Search", "Midaq Alley" and "Wedding Song". All but one of the stories are set in Cairo and they feature the denizens of the alleyways who struggle to survive their poverty, melancholy ruminations on death, and experiments with the supernatural.
- ISBN10 0385269382
- ISBN13 9780385269384
- Publish Date 12 November 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 October 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Doubleday
- Format Paperback
- Pages 199
- Language English