 First edition | |
| Author | P.H. Newby |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Published | 1955 |
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape |
| Publication place | UK |
| Pages | 239 |
The Picnic at Sakkara is a 1955 novel by P.H. Newby. It is about a lecturer at Cairo University, Edgar Perry, during the rule of King Farouk. He becomes tutor to a pasha, and is swept into a conflict between Western ways and the Moslem Brotherhood. It is a comedic novel. It is the first novel of the Anglo-Egyptian comic trilogy, the others being Revolution and Roses (1957) and A Guest and His Going (1960).
Reception
Anthony Thwaite called it "wonderful", and said that it was Newby's "most successful and memorable achievement." Kirkus Reviews, however, found it to be "idiosyncratic" and an acquired taste.
References
- Newby, Percy Howard (13 August 1964). "The Picnic at Sakkara". Faber & Faber. Retrieved 13 August 2019 – via Google Books.
- "The Picnic at Sakkara". Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- Blamires, Harry (1986). Twentieth-century English literature. Macmillan history of literature (2nd ed.). Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan. p. 200. ISBN 978-0-333-42810-8.
- Obituary:P.H. Newby, in The Independent; published September 9, 1997; retrieved September 11, 2019
- THE PICNIC AT SAKKARA, reviewed in Kirkus Reviews; first published August 23, 1955; retrieved September 11, 2019
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