The Eye of Life

About this book

Amin grows up listening to his grandmother Ain, whose stories make him the private historian of an Egyptian village. Her memories reach back to the land reforms of the 1950s and to Mayor Qurashi's manipulation of them, which impoverished original residents and turned fertile soil into an inherited curse. Within this social history unfolds the tragic love of Aziz, a dutiful young man, and Farah, a modern nurse whose outlook challenges his traditions. Their fate becomes entangled with fraud, false promises of rapid wealth, prison, and loss. The Eye of Life is a novel about memory's resistance to injustice and the human price of greed.