CONTENTS
Translator’s Note
CHAPTER ONE
Where Is the Graveyard of Music?
The Quartets of Ibn Arus
CHAPTER TWO
Portrait of an Old Man in 6th of October
CHAPTER THREE
A Letter from Reem
A Portrait of Mona May at Twenty
A Flower in Full Bloom
Shafiqa of Alexandria
A Cocksucker’s Reprimand to His Fellow Cocksuckers
CHAPTER FOUR
The Road of Passion
The Animals of Cairo
The Nile Meets Paprika
CHAPTER FIVE
Night
Revenge Has No Place in Modern Life (1)
CHAPTER SIX
Revenge Has No Place in Modern Life (2)
Hefny Ahmed Hassan
Concerning the Influence of the Past on the Future
CHAPTER SEVEN
The Third Flower . . . Where Do I Put the Third Flower, Reem?
Muhammad Taha
Meeting the Doctor
The Graveyard of Music
Mind Control and Masturbation
One of These Days I Shan’t Awake
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
The Tree
CHAPTER TEN
Author’s Acknowledgments