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By Maha Ayoub

What may perhaps a half-Christian veiled African, a tennis-playing millionaire socialite with Ottoman ancestors, a Nubian masquerading as her personal kid's lacking father, a best government hiding a shameful mystery, and a burqa-clad extremely conservative deserted spouse, potentially have in common?

For one, they percentage a dilapidated place of work in a derelict Kafka-esque forms, including the neighborhood other-worldly inhabitant: an invisible evil Jinn, it appears rationale on killing them all.

And that is the effortless part.

The girls' placid regimen is grew to become upside-down once they are ordered to maneuver right into a fresh construction, a prospect much more distressing than the vicious civil struggle raging of their country.

Five girls, 5 very diverse girls, suffer the the demise of a decrepit, post-colonial, multi-cultural and ethnically varied state, and the next agonizing delivery of 2 new, and probably still-born, uniform yet diametrically hostile nations. heritage is within the making, and the reader witnesses it via their eyes, reviews it via their lives, and stocks their lack of ability to change the process ancient occasion; occasions that might remodel their kin with one another, try their skill to carry their households jointly, or recreate them in an alien new reality.

"Nile Blues" is an ironic tackle a inflexible society governed by means of non secular and political taboos, riven by way of racial divides, and whose very cloth has been eroded by means of a extraordinary mixture of archaic superstition and cutting-edge corruption. the tale, narrated by means of the characters of their personal phrases and during their scathingly irreverent wit, unfolds a tapestry of overlapping and conflicting wishes and fears, own and collective, woven jointly via the undying river, the Blue Nile, the undercurrent that either unites and divides.

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