Publisher's Synopsis
When a seventeen-year-old flees his violent father and heads to Cairo to chase a dream of becoming a writer, he ends up in a crumbling flat with a chain-smoking 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 story about art, survival, and the strange intimacies forged by necessity. Longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, this cult-favourite novel by Belal Fadl appears in English for the first time, in a vivid translation by Osama Hammad.
