num_pages: 167
description: In a houseboat moored along the banks of the Nile, a group of disaffected middle-class Cairenes who gather each evening to socialize experience a tragedy that rips apart their friendships.
language: English
title: Adrift on the Nile
titlecomplete: Adrift on the Nile
genres: Fiction, Egypt, Philosophy, Egyptian Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Nobel Prize, 20th Century, Africa
ratings_count: 8951
places: Cairo
publisher: Doubleday