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Literary Fiction · ThoughtfulA British drifter arrives in Port Said just as the Suez crisis breaks
Something to Answer For
by P. H. Newby
1968288 pagesModerate readSteady pace
★ Booker Prize, 1969
An Englishman is caught up in Egypt during the Suez crisis
Townrow travels to Port Said in 1956 after receiving a letter from Mrs Khoury, the widow of an old friend. He soon finds himself in Cairo and in the middle of the political tensions around the Suez crisis. The book was the first winner of the Booker Prize.
More about this book
Who
Townrow, an Englishman, and Mrs Khoury, the widow of his friend.
World
Port Said and Cairo in the weeks of the Suez crisis, 1956.
What makes it different
It was the first novel ever to win the Booker Prize, in 1969.
Feel
Restless and unsettled.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- Something to Answer ForWikipedia