Cafe On The Nile
Bartle Bull
It is 1935. In Cairo and East Africa, the separate and collective fates of
a memorable cast of characters will be determined by Mussolini's armies
streaming through the Suez Canal on their way to Ethiopia. And at the
Cataract Cafe, Olivio Alevado, the Goan dwarf and proprietor, caters to
everyone from the Egyptian elite to thrill-seeking Europeans. At the cafe
on the Nile, every cocktail is laced with dreams and schemes.
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