The Sparsholt Affair Kia Abdullah On the streets of Cairo

On the streets of Cairo

Then he guesses the weight of the cake

uncharacteristically

Hiding amidst the chaos is Zala Ulora

but because she was Muslim and he was not

The Sparsholt Affair Kia Abdullah On the streets of CairoIn October 1940, the handsome young David Sparsholt arrives in Oxford. A keen athlete and oarsman, he at first seems unaware of the effect he has on others particularly on the lonely and romantic Evert Dax, son of a celebrated novelist and destined to become a writer himself. While the Blitz rages in London, Oxford exists at a strange remove: an ephemeral, uncertain place, in which nightly blackouts conceal secret liaisons. Over the course of one