The man who lost his shadow
By: [by] Fathy Ghanem. Translated from the Arabic by Desmond Stewart.
Edition: [1st American ed.]
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1966
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Description: First published in English in 1966, this novel tells the story of Yusif Abdul Hamid, a young and ambitious Cairo journalist, through the eyes of four people in turn: Mabruka, the young peasant girl who marries Yusif's aging father while strongly attracted to Yusif; Samia, a minor actress, who Yusif lives with and almost marries but in the end rejects; Muhammad Nagi, the newspaper editor who then marries Samia and who is pushed out of his job by Yusif; and finally Yusif himself, editor-in-chief of the newspaper al-Ayyam, a stranger to himself, "someone I neither love nor hate."
Notes: Translation of al-Rajul alladhi  faqada zillah.