num_pages: 192
description: A highly charged, tightly written tale of intersecting lives that provides us with both an engaging and powerful story as well as a vivid portrait of life in Egypt in the late 1960's. "With Miramar we are in the hands of a considerable novelist, and one who knows his country's complex problems, and complex soul, profoundly."--John Fowles
language: English
title: Miramar
titlecomplete: Miramar
characters: حسنى علام, منصور باهى, عامر وجدى, مدام ماريانا, سرحان البحيرى, زهرة, طلبة بك مرزوق
genres: Classics, Historical, Egyptian Literature, Nobel Prize, Novels, Egypt, Africa, 20th Century, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 6850
places: Alexandria
publisher: Anchor Doubleday