Among the pharaohs

Douglas Kennedy in Egypt, or how a young writer still unknown arrives in Alexandria more than twenty years ago, a few pounds sterling and five travel notebooks in his pocket, determined to avoid the pyramids, the cruise on the Nile and other travel classics in the East.

From Alexandria to Aswan by hitchhiking, from the oasis of Siwa to the shanty towns of Cairo, a fascinating dive behind the scenes, where our apprentice traveling writer will multiply unusual encounters: fifteen meters from the sphinx, a Toyota salesman whose heart swings between three wives, the prophet Mohammed and his Mercedes collection a disturbing felucca pilot whose heart is broken by a French woman Bedouin addicts to CNN ; computer monks in the heart of the desert…

Douglas Kennedy, born January 1, 1955 in New York, is an American writer. The appeal of Douglas Kennedy’s novels, in addition to their suspense and the truth of their characters, lies above all in their eternal questioning, whether about self-righteousness in America, about humanity, about relations between men and women, or about art.

Au-delà des pyramides (translation by Bernard Cohen), Belfond, 2010, 310 p.
(ISBN 978-2-7144-4465-3), reprinted Pocket No. 14561