TY - BOOK ID - 136369213 TI - Mortal Designs AU - Bassiouney, Reem AU - Magidow, Melanie PY - 2016 SN - 1617977241 9781617977244 PB - La Vergne DB - UniCat UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136369213 AB - Captain Murad is busy planning for the Afterlife. He dreams of a grand, sunlit mausoleum on the banks of the Nile. To realize his pharaonic folly, the retired captain kindles an unlikely romance between Hazem, a feckless architect longing for immortality, and Asma, an impoverished single mother who strives for a better life for her children. As Murad's tomb rises on the riverbank, so Hazem and Asma fall in love. A contemporary Egyptian romance of rare grace and wit, played out by characters trapped in their attitudes toward class and gender. ER -