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sorry!! I am really a brainless idiot, am I! I got it completely wrong, I said Aisha but meant her mother AMINA!!!! Sorry for the mistake, I was absorbed by the spelling thing. Anyway I meant the mother, but you'll soon find out why she's such a special character. Uh, about Aisha... (how dumb...

glad to hear somebody likes OP as much as I do... I agree 100% with you about the Black Book. I also think 'Snow' and 'My name is red' are great. I particularly enjoyed 'Snow''s structure, because Pamuk took a great risk with it - that of being too literal, too naively symbolic. But he pulled it...

well you couldn't imagine her being a spinster for the rest of her life, this being 1920s cairo!:D but there's a lot about her... she's very intriguing, even more so if you consider she's been created by a man. Mahfouz seems almost feminist in some respects. She's not really that sympathique...

It also took me a while to be grabbed - after the first volume I didn't immediately begin the second, I was almost annoyed by the slow pace and by the apparently naive vocabulary. But I kept on reading just because my father had bought all the three of them. :p Also, characters of the third...

my name is actually Sheherazade, yes, as in the 'arabian nights'. not really that wearable, as you can guess. :p

I have read all of Nothomb's work- every year, as she publishes her new book, as I open the first page, I know I'm about to enjoy myself - she rarely disappoints as her 'corpus' is incredibly homogeneous. I like her short format, her obsessive leitmotives, her cruelty. But I also agree with you...

Very good Hi there, I just want to say that I also admire Sarah Waters and have read all of her works except Night Watch - I liked her books so much that I don't want to be disappointed by her last... could you tell me if you liked it or not? I liked Fingersmith best, really compelling and...

Outstanding Trilogy Sorry to hear you couldn't get a copy of Mahfouz's impressive trilogy. In Italy it has been easy to find ever since the first translation in the early nineties. I've read it first about ten years ago and keep rereading parts every once in a while. First of all I have to say...