Cigarette Number Seven: A Novel (Hoopoe Fiction)

A young woman's story of family, love, and revolution in modern Cairo

As a child, Nadia was left with her grandparents in Egypt, while her mother sought work in the Gulf. Decades later, she looks back on her fragmented childhood from an uncertain present: it is 2011 and the streets have erupted in an unexpected revolution. Her activist father, th...show more