The story shifts to the US and centres on the surviving brother, who has married his brother's wife, each living fractured lives within impermeable carapaces.
Ragia Omran, a lawyer for the Cairo-based Arab Human Rights Institute who visited Fahmy in prison on Wednesday, said his shoulder, already dislocated from a previous fall, had been fractured when the detainees were transported to Cairo's Qasr en-Nil police station for interrogation.
Many of Newman's songs are about torrid love affairs and fractured relationships.
"One guy had a broken leg, another broken ribs, and the cab driver fractured his wrist - but they recovered".
Fiercely private and avowed enemy of the press, his public persona is similarly fractured: garrulous hard-nut, working-class hero, fanciable chancer, nippy sweetie.
Less than 24 hours after Root had hit a century to set up the series-clinching victory over West Indies in Antigua, England confirmed that the Yorkshireman had fractured a thumb early in his innings, and would be heading home for treatment.
However, the Galicians' victory was tainted as full-back Filipe Luís fractured his ankle as he scored his side's first goal.
He was taken to a private clinic in Fortaleza – "crying out in pain", according to the Brazil manager, Luiz Felipe Scolari, – where an X-ray revealed he had fractured one of his vertebrae.
The network has now fractured under intense pressure from Indian security services.
Just two weeks ago Ahmed Shehzad, a batsman for Pakistan, fractured his skull when the ball hit him straight on the helmet.
Piping-hot underground water and steam, percolating up through fissures in rocks fractured by seismic activity, have been a welcome feature of the European landscape since the Romans popularised bathing.
