A crumbling tenement building with an ensemble cast, at the top of the Alley of the Seven Daughters in Cairo; 'Don't you know the house is about to crash?' signposts Egypt's social and political corruption and class conflict. Henry Miller – an early fan of Cossery – gave it universal importance – 'We are all living in that house, whether we realise it or not'; #11 in the publisher's 'New Directions' series.
![Wake for Susan [and] A Drowning Incident by McCarthy, C.J.](/images/books/cover/55536_202522315400_cormac_mccarthy_x_2.jpg "Wake for Susan [and] A Drowning Incident by McCarthy, C.J.")
