The Last Watchman of Old Cairo

from ozzer

THE LAST WATCHMAN OF OLD CAIRO is three things. First, it is a family chronicle about a Muslim father who falls for a Jewish woman in Cairo. They have a son but never marry and eventually drift apart. Second, the novel is a coming-of-age story about a young man who seeks to understand his estrang...

from HeatherLINC

This book was basically three stories that loosely linked together. They were set in different time periods and, by far, Ali's story was the most interesting. He was a young Muslim boy who became the watchman of a Jewish synagogue. I loved the lush descriptions of old Cairo and Ali was a delightf...

from Pmaurer

I listened to this book on tape, and wished I had read the physical book. The book uses three specific time periods to tell the story, and I found it hard to make the transition between them while listening to the tape. However, the book was well written, with interesting details included about t...

from AnaraGuard

The Last Watchman of Old Cairo follows three linked story lines: Ali, a Muslim youth in perhaps 1200 AD; twin sisters in 1872 who are eager to get their hands on the surviving documents of an historic synagogue's genizi; and Joseph (or Yusef), a young gay man born to a Jewish mother and Muslim fa...

from pennykaplan

Intertwined stories tell of the Jewish community in Cairo and the Muslim family who watched the synagogue. Main narrative is by a Jewish-Egyptian American who finds himself in the historical documents found in the ancient synagogue in Cairo. Much better than this description, and well written, too!