The End of Sleep
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: June 23, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780393066609
Subjects: Literature: Texts; General; Fiction / General; Fiction; Fiction - General
Description: In this exuberant, transformative tale of modern-day Cairo, a drunken Irish journalist named Fin seeks a story. His friend Farouk, mercurial teller of tales, has tantalized him with news of the wily Skinhead Said, who may or may not have discovered a cache of priceless antiquities. But the truth remains elusive -- not until they both travel to proverbial hell and back, courtesy of a thuggish kebab-shop tycoon and his brutal retinue. Once Fin finds a way to save his friend's life, and baba ghanoush is properly made, and other necessities of life are observed, then stories may be spun and secrets reluctantly revealed.