A story of a cairo street during ww2 which doesn't shy away from the darker side of society with a cafe owner obsessed with yng boys, a man who makes a living by disabling men to become beggars, a dentist who finds his gold teeth from corpses, and a yng woman who drifts into prostitution. Despite dark themes the author tells a story with love of characters + a society you feel he knows intimately. I imagined myself sat in a cafe
observing it all.