The Picnic at Sakkara
# The Picnic at Sakkara

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.

## 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.

