Grishm is super talented basketball player whose leading ambition is to win the trophy of the most beloved national intercollegiate tournament, The Fab Feb. He falls in love with Amaira, who secretly aspires to become an actor. Their lives become tortuous when their prestige brings them unwanted, manic lovers. On being deceived, Grishm's wrathful reaction takes away his chance to play The Fab Feb. To top the misery, Amaira's climb to success brings more misfortunes to Grishm's life. At the extremity of losing everything, life gives him another chance to achieve his goal and terminate his feelings of insecurity for Amaira. But will this cost him her dreams?

A kaleidoscopic tribute to San Francisco by a life-long Bay Area resident and co-founder of Salon explores specific city sites including the Golden Gate Bridge and the Land's End sea cliffs while tying his visits to key historical events. By the author of Shadow Knights. 30,000 first printing.

Contents I. Furious Versionis II. The Interrogation This Hour And What Is Dead Arise, Go Down My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud For A New Citizen Of These United States With Ruins III. This Room And Everything In It The City In Which I Love You IV. The Waiting A Story Goodnight You Must Sing Here I Am A Final Thing V. The Cleaving

An ancient city where the leader was chosen not by the votes of the men but the leader was decided with the maximum number of kisses given by the ladies in this competition. The women had the power of choosing the right men of the state but did not have the power of being chosen and The Men did not have the power to vote but he had the power of being chosen. Men control the woman by their physic and women control men by their beauty. But who was the one who won this great game, read this competition to know the Power of a KISS and Love.

Cairo, January 1952. Egypt is at a critical point in its modern history, struggling to throw off the yoke of the seventy-year British occupation and its corrupt royalist allies. Hamza is a committed young radical, his goal to build a secret armed brigade to fight for freedom, independence, and national self-esteem. Fawziya is a woman with a mission too, keen to support the cause. Among the ashes of the city love may grow, but at a time of national struggle what place do personal feelings have beside the greater love for a shackled homeland? In this finely crafted novel, Yusuf Idris, best known as the master of the Arabic short story, brings to life not only some of the most human characters in modern Arabic fiction but the soul of Cairo itself and the soul of a national consciousness focused on liberation. ''Like the Russian aristocrats of Chekhov, the provincial bourgeoisie of Flaubert, or the Ibo villagers of Achebe, Idris raises his authentic characters into convincing types within their context: he makes us live their agonies and hopes.''--Ferial Ghazoul

Iris, a museum conservator in her late forties, is separating from her husband while bringing up two daughters. Raif is a stalled academic, as uncertain of the past as he is of the future, whose girlfriend is about to move in with him. When Iris and Raif first meet by chance, Iris suddenly turns away and starts to run. She is running from what this encounter has woken in her. In the City of Love's Sleep is a contemporary story about what it means to fall in love in middle age. It charts the steps two people take towards one another and what it means to have taken those steps before.