The Arroyo Book Club pick for May…

In May the Arroyo Book Club will be participating in the Big Read program.  This means that we will read a fiction book again (without a non-fiction filler) but on the plus side you’ll get to keep the copy of the book you get (while supplies last).  Anyway…. The book we will be reading is TheThief and the Dogs by Naguib Mahfouz.

This short book tells a tale of post-revolutionary Egypt combining “a vivid psychological portrait of an anguished man with the suspense and rapid pace of a detective story.” 

Naguid Mahfouz is an Egyptian writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988.  Find out more about him & the book we’ll be reading at the Big Read’s website (http://www.neabigread.org/books/thethiefandthedogs/).