Summary
A newly translated novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author.
An intense psychological study of a young man growing up in Cairo who has been so dominated by his mother that her death sets him dangerously adrift in a world he cannot manage alone.
A stunning example of Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz’s psychological portraiture, The Mirage is the story of an intense young man who has been so dominated by his mother that her death sets him dange…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780307742582 |
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| ISBN-10: | 030774258X |
| Author: | Naguib Mahfouz |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2012 |
| Weight: | 376g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 133mm x 24mm |
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“Mahfouz is a storyteller of the first order in any idiom.” —Vanity Fair
About The Author
Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. His nearly forty novels and hundreds of short stories range from re-imaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. Of his many works, most famous is The Cairo Trilogy, consisting of Palace Walk (1956), Palace of Desire (1957), and Sugar Street (1957), which focuses on a Cairo family through three generations, from 1917 until 1952. In 1988, he was the first writer in Arabic to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in August 2006.
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