Cairo Snow

In her novel "The Snow of Cairo," Abdel Rahman tells us the story of a woman, or rather two women, or rather the story of three women: Solay, Nourjahan, and Bushra...three women living in the body of one woman. There are three of them, but they are all one. One woman lives in the present and two pasts inhabit her. Three lives in one present that flounders under the weight of scenes that he recalls from his spiritual memory. In addition to the philosophical depth in the writing of the novel,...