The Procession of the Living: Khan al-Khalili, Naguib Mahfouz, Faïza Ladkany, Gilles Ladkany

In 1941, fleeing the modern city bombed by the Germans, a middle-class family moved to an old district of Cairo, Khan al-Khalili, reputed to be safer. There, the elder son, Ahmad, a taciturn and misogynistic forty-something, falls in love with a sixteen-year-old girl, Nawal, but does not dare to ask for her hand in marriage. His younger brother Rouchdi also succumbs to Nawal's charm and is more proactive...