Includes PS Section A beguiling, entrancing novel that tells the story of a prominent Egyptian family's struggle to survive the turmoil of post-World War II Cairo. A moving and emotional debut novel from an exciting new voice in contemporary fiction. Accessible and engaging, this book has huge potential to be a crossover literary success in paperback. Competition: The Map of Love (Ahdaf Soueif)
Samia Serageldin is an academic who lives in America. She is currently writing her next book.
'Using a beautiful prose style, Serageldin makes Gigi's problems vivid and real. This semi-autobiographical novel!is fascinating and highly entertaining.' Library Journal (US) 'This novel is about the personal changes - births, growing up, growing old, deaths - that make exiles of us all. Serageldin does a wonderful job of evoking Gigi's Cairo milieu.' Booklist (US) '[Serageldin's] own experiences lend The Cairo House an intimate, authentic tone, and provide an interesting prism through which to observe the shifting status of a complex nation.' Scottish Sunday Herald 'The postwar history of Egypt is skilfully woven into this evocative first novel's portrayal of a wealthy Cairo family's susceptibility to the winds of political change! a telling exploration of the ambiguities of status, loyalty, and belonging' Kirkus Reviews (US)
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