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Rusalka
This book is three of Naguib Mahfouz's short novellas in one book. I bought this years and years ago after reading The Carpet Wars: From Kabul to Baghdad: A Ten-Year Journey Along Ancient Trade Routes and took myself off to The Asia Bookroom here in Canberra to edumacate myself some more. I bought this and Geisha of Gion: The True Story of Japan's Foremost Geisha. This was the first one of them I ever opened.

Why did I buy them? No idea. I think the declaration of the winner of the Nobel Prize fo
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Almeta
Dec 29, 2012 marked it as to-read