Private Pleasures

Private Pleasures describes the three-day sex, drink, and drug binge of a thirty-something newsreader in the back streets and crumbling apartments of his native Giza, that pullulating mass of humanity that, like an ugly sister, sits opposite Cairo on the Nile''s west bank.Pursued by an unshakable sense of impending doom that is only partly attributable to fear of retribution at the hands of a sadi...