Adrift on the Nile

Adrift on the Nile- Adrift on the Nile is a brief novel by Naguib Mahfouz that portraits theabsurdity and emptiness of life in Cairo during the late 1960''s, and the yearning for a seriousness. The novel''s main setting is a houseboat on the Nile where Anis Zaki, a bored and aimless civil servant, spends his leisure time in a narcotic daze induced by smoking hash. In the evenings Anis serves a gro...