{"product_id":"adrift-on-the-nile","title":"Adrift on the Nile","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1966, Naguib Mahfouz’s Adrift on the Nile is an atmospheric novel that dramatizes the rootlessness of Egypt’s cosmopolitan middle class. Anis Zani is a bored and drug-addicted civil servant who is barely holding on to his job.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery evening he hosts a gathering on a houseboat on the Nile, where he and a motley group of cynical and aimless friends share a water pipe full of kif, a mixture of tobacco and marijuana.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen a young female journalist—an “alarmingly serious person”—joins them and begins secretly documenting their activities, the group’s harmony starts disintegrating, culminating in a midnight joyride that ends in tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Featherheart Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51344498524384,"sku":"0385423330","price":3240.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0772\/4987\/2096\/files\/9780385423335.jpg?v=1775290154","url":"https:\/\/featherheartbooks.com\/products\/adrift-on-the-nile","provider":"Featherheart Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}