Nile SparrowsSet in the authors own Nile side neighborhood of Warraq, Aslans second novel, the first to be translated and published in English, chronicles the daily rhythm of life of rural migrants to Cairo and their complex webs of familial and neighborly relations over half a century. It opens with the mysterious disappearance of the tiny grandmother, Hanem, who is over 100 years old and is last seen by her daughter in law Dalal. Dalal does not have the heart to