The Picnic at Sakkara by P. H. Newby (Knopf, 1955)
Everyone’s hapless and floundering in this gently satiric novel set in Egypt in the 1950s. Some wry comedy and a sweet buoyancy keep this haphazardly plotted novel engaging. It sustains one’s interest but doesn’t leave one with much. A sort of combination of Waugh and Forster, and inferior to both.
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