Before the Throne
Dialogues with Egypt's Great from Menes to Anwar Sadat
$37.05
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2012
Summary
A newly translated novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author- an extraordinary drama in which nearly sixty of Egypt’s past leaders-from the time of the pharoahs to the twentieth century-are summoned to judgment by the god Osiris.
Nearly sixty of Egypt’s past leaders-from the time of the Pharoahs to the twentieth century-are summoned to judgment in the Court of Osiris in the Afterlife, in this extraordinary novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Naguib Mahfouz.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780307742568 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0307742563 |
| Author: | Naguib Mahfouz |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2012 |
| Weight: | 164g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 132mm x 11mm |
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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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