As in The Yacoubian Building, the cast of characters is vast and not always easy to keep track of, but the principal narrative follows the affairs of Gaafar's family, in particular his exemplary son Kamel, who combines doorkeeping duties at the Automobile Club with studying for a law degree.
If your child's teacher tells you that your exemplary son or daughter is misbehaving, believe them.
"On a day like today we affectionately congratulate Juan Miguel Gonzalez, an exemplary father and son of a people who struggled for a noble cause, not just for his son, but to show that you cannot use a child for political manipulation".
This was an exemplary show of an exemplary master of all human life.
As a university executive, I wanted the same thing for every student enrolled at the university as I wanted for my son: an exemplary collegiate experience that culminated with the receipt of a degree with value in the global marketplace.
Here Martha Hedges, "a devoted wife" and the mother of three very accomplished grown sons, an exemplary housewife and helpmeet, is, in her demure way, greatly looking forward to the liberation of widowhood.
Her son soon became an exemplary Communist youth who, at 15, went to Oriente Province to teach peasants to read and write.
When Mick won the British National Ploughing Championship last year, and secured his place at the world championship, Ken watched, beaming, as his son finished off an exemplary plot.
He lived an exemplary family life with his wife, Gertrude, his son, Frank, and his Yorkshire terrier, Airen.
