Award-winning Egyptian novelist Mohamed Mansi Qandil worked as a physician before becoming an author and literary critic. He is the author of several short-story collections and novels, including A Cloudy Day on the Western Shore. R. Neil Hewison served as editorial director of the American University in Cairo Press until his retirement in 2017. He has translated works by Egyptian writers Yusuf Idris, Yusuf Abu Rayya, Gamal al-Ghitani, and Naguib Mahfouz. He lives in the village of Tunis in the Fayoum.
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"A gripping novel by a well-known but under-translated Egyptian author. . . . The novel is translated beautifully-impeccably." - Marilyn Booth, translator of Celestial Bodies, winner of the International Booker Prize "The novel is at once an absorbing story of village life in Upper Egypt around 1980, and a searing indictment of multiple forms of oppression: women at the hands of their male relatives, the marginalized at the hands of the police, everyone at the hands of the thoroughly corrupt government... A flawless translation." -Kay Heikkinen, translator of Granada: The Complete Trilogy