Wedding Song - Rilegato

Mahfouz, Naguib; Kenny, Olive E.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0385264631 ISBN 13: 9780385264631

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 1989

Riassunto

Four characters--the leading man, the playwright, his father, and his mother--explain the genesis of a sensational new play, some interpreting it as a work of the imagination, others as a brazen confession of sordid family secrets

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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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

the backdrop of the the theater, this novel is a taut psychological drama on and off the stage.  First published in 1981, this brilliant novel focuses on how time transforms people and their emotions.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0385264631
• ISBN 13: 9780385264631
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida