The End of Sleep

With Irish wit and passion, Somerville crafts a riotous love letter to Arab culture-its sense of honor and friendship, its food and humor, and above all, its storytelling.

In this exuberant, transformative tale of modern-day Cairo, a drunken Irish journalist named Fin seeks a story. His friend Farouk, mercurial teller of tales, has tantalized him with news of the wily Skinhead Said, who may or may not have discovered a cache of priceless antiquities. But the truth remains elusive-not until t...