Summary
In Naguib Mahfouz‘s suspenseful novel a bitter and ambitious nihilist, a beautiful and impoverished student, and a corrupt official engage in a doomed menage a trois. Cairo of the 1930s is a place of vast social and economic inequities. It is also a time of change, when the universities have just opened to women and heady new philosophies imported from Europe are stirring up debates among the young. Mahgub is a fiercely proud student who is determined to keep both his poverty and his lack of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780307473530 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0307473538 |
| Author: | Naguib Mahfouz |
| Publisher: | Anchor Books |
| Imprint: | Anchor Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 243 |
| Release Date: | 15 May 2010 |
| Weight: | 277g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 167mm x 203mm |
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“Intriguing…. Dostoyevskyan…. Mahfouz’s brilliance lies in portraying the mixture of good and evil in human character…. Mahfouz was Egypt’s Balzac.” -The New York Times
“Intriguing…. Dostoyevskyan…. Mahfouz’s brilliance lies in portraying the mixture of good and evil in human character…. Mahfouz was Egypt’s Balzac.” –The New York Times
About The Author
Naguib Mahfouz
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ was born in 1911 in the crowded Cairo district of Gamaliya. He studied philosophy at Cairo University, then worked in various government ministries until his retirement in 1971. His first three published novels were Khufu’s Wisdom (1939), Rhadopis of Nubia (1943), and Thebes at War (1944), all of which are set in ancient Egypt. These political and philosophical critiques disguised as historical romances show the unmistakable signs of a burgeoning literary genius. He went on to write more than 35 other novel-length works, plus hundreds of short stories and numerous cinema plots a
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