(OK) Nagib Mafuz is so universal that yoo don't have to know egiptian politics, to catch the dilemmas and appretn idiot plots of classes and despicable moods: the heroe is not the soisticate bourgeois leftist, even he is beaten; but the girl obligued to be the minister's lover and his contract husband, so despised by everubody that doesn'nt matter he es free to have romance with the woman...