The Day the Leader Was Killed - Brossura

Mahfouz, Naguib

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ISBN 10: 0385499221 ISBN 13: 9780385499224

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2000

Riassunto

Set in Anwar al-Sadat's Egypt, this novel relates the tale of a middle-class Cairene family, narrated alternately by the pious and mischievous family patriarch Muhtashimi Zayed, his hapless grandson, Elwan, and Elwan's headstrong and beautiful fiancee, Randa, culmiating with the assassination of Sadat on October 6, 1981, an event around which the fictional plot is woven. Reprint.

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Praise for Naguib Mahfouz:

"The greatest writer in one of the most widely understood languages in the world, a storyteller of the first order in any idiom." —Vanity Fair

"A Dickens of the Cairo cafes." —Newsweek

"The incredible variety of Naguib Mahfouz's writings continue to dazzle our eyes." —The Washington Post

"Naguib Mahfouz virtually invented the novel as an Arab form. He excels at fusing deep emotion and soap opera." —The New York Times Book Review

"Mahfouz's work is freshly nuanced and hauntingly lyrical. The Nobel Prize acknowledges the universal significance of his fiction." —Los Angeles Times Book Review

L'autore:

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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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0385499221
• ISBN 13: 9780385499224
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 112