Berengaria’s Reviews > The Book of Cairo: A City in Short Fiction > Status Update

"...from very early on, there was always a strong drive to capture the lives and struggles of contemporary Egyptians in short fiction.... whereas the novel was the genre of the rich, because novels had to be bought, short stories were for ordinary, poor Egyptians because they appeared on the pages of the newspapers that wrapped their daily falafel."

Wow, the short story as democratic-social culture!