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Culture-clash On The Campus

Francis King CHICAGO by Alaa al-Aswani Fourth Estate, £14.99, pp.332 ISBN 97800007285181......

B Ecause I Spend Part Of Each Winter In Egypt, Friends

from time to time ask me to recommend, not a guide, but a book that will give them the ‘feel’ of that country. Invariably my choice has been The Cairo Trilogy of Naguib Mahfouz,......

A Crisis Of Confidence

Anita Brookner T HE B ELIEVERS by Zoë Heller Fig Tree, £16.99, pp. 308. ISBN 9780670916122 ✆ £13.59 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 665 Z oë Heller’s Z oë Heller’s Notes on a Scandal......