Contents -- Introduction -- The Cheapest Nights -- You Are Everything to Me -- The Errand -- Hard Up -- The Funeral Ceremony -- All on a Summer's Night -- The Caller in the Night -- The Dregs of the City -- Did You Have to Turn on the Light, Li- Li? -- Death from Old Age -- The Shame -- His Mother -- An Egyptian Mona Lisa -- The Chair Carrier -- Rings of Burnished Brass -- The Shaykh Shaykha -- It's Not Fair -- House of Flesh -- Farahat's Republic -- The Greatest Sin of All -- from City of Love and Ashes.