The Search - Brossura

Mahfouz, Naguib

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0385264607 ISBN 13: 9780385264600

Casa editrice: Anchor Books, 1991

Riassunto

A powerful story of lust, greed and murder.  Unflinching, tough, and dramatic, The Search was most certainly intended to be a harsh criticism of Post-Revolution morality, but, on its most elemental level, it is  a lurid and compelling tale.

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L'autore:

Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. A student of philosophy and an avid reader, his works range from reimaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. Over a career that lasted more than five decades, he wrote 33 novels, 13 short story anthologies, numerous plays, and 30 screenplays. 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 awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first writer in Arabic to do so. He died in August 2006.

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tory of lust, greed and murder.  Unflinching, tough, and dramatic, The Search was most certainly intended to be a harsh criticism of Post-Revolution morality, but, on its most elemental level, it is  a lurid and compelling tale.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Anchor Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0385264607
• ISBN 13: 9780385264600
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Redattore: Wahba Magdi