Finding Mahmoud

About the Book

Peggy Cambell, 27, meets Mahmoud Allam, 29, an Egyptian surgeon at a disco in London. They fall in love and sail off to make a new life in Zagazig, a provincial city on the Nile Delta. Peggy finds herself imprisoned in a world of hostile and hysterical women, deprived of her birthrights in the west. Learning ugly truths about Mahmoud’s past, she wants to leave but becomes involved with a commune of women weavers. Supporting Mahmoud’s mother and sisters in their attempts to achieve freedom, Peggy sets loose the force that even Mahmoud cannot stop. His nemesis, Sami, risks intimacy with Mahmoud’s mother. Though Mahmoud’s heart is in the future, one foot remains planted in the past.

About the Author

Tom Filer's novels and short stories have been published in the United States, England, and Russia. A dive and albacore fisherman, he's worked as a screenwriter and actor with Jack Nicholson, Monte Hellman (Ride in the Whirlwind) and Roger Corman. He is currently in the Micronesia researching his latest novel.