August

The novel revolves around "Elizabeth"; She was the last of the Jewish girls to immigrate from Egypt, and her mother was Madame "Nakhil," a movie extra in the 1940s, one of those who danced the Clacket in the Haram Street casinos, and a friend of the English murderer, "Jack Malecki," the Jew. After the loss of her mother and the loss of her affiliation to the Jewish community in Egypt, Elizabeth lives in a state of loss in a society that has changed her and rejects her because she is a Jew l...