by Robert Solé · SEUIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782021030013
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«Une soirée au Caire» is the novel by Robert Solé, published by Seuil in paperback in 2010, with 216 pages in French.
During a dinner in Cairo, Dina brings together a cosmopolitan society in the old Batrakani family house. Charles, the narrator, returns with a false passport and reunites with Dina, Negm El-Wardani, the Egyptologist Josselin, and the driver Yassa. Amira's arrival reveals secrets: can the present match the lost paradise?
It is part of the Cadre rouge collection from Seuil (volume 1) and revisits the Batrakani family from «Le Tarbouche», by the same author.
For readers of contemporary French fiction and stories set in Egypt, with an interest in social changes since the 1960s.
Robert Solé is a French journalist and novelist of Syrian origin. Born in Cairo in 1946, Solé moved to France at the age of 18. He has served as ombudsman of the Parisian newspaper Le Monde. His works of fiction include Le Tarbouche and La Mamelouka. Solé studied at the École supérieure de journalisme de Lille in Lille.
