Morning and Evening Talk by Mahfouz, Naguib

Morning and Evening Talk (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307455062)

Vendor: Naguib Mahfouz
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Format: Paperback
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Morning and Evening Talk by Mahfouz, Naguib

Morning and Evening Talk

$13.95
Morning and Evening Talk by Mahfouz, Naguib

Morning and Evening Talk

$13.95
Format: Paperback
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From the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Cairo Trilogy and "a storyteller of the first order" (Vanity Fair) comes an epic novel that portrays five generations of one sprawling family against the upheavals of two centuries of modern Egyptian history.

Set in Cairo, Morning and Evening Talk traces three related families from the arrival of Napoleon to the 1980s, through short character sketches arranged in alphabetical order. This highly experimental device produces a kind of biographical dictionary, whose individual entries come together to paint a vivid portrait of life in Cairo from a range of perspectives. The characters include representatives of every class and human type and as the intricate family saga unfolds, a powerful picture of a society in transition emerges. This is a tale of change and continuity, of the death of a traditional way of life and the road to independence and beyond, seen through the eyes of Egypt's citizens. Naguib Mahfouz's last chronicle of Cairo is both an elegy to a bygone era and a tribute to the Egyptian spirit.

Author: Naguib Mahfouz
ISBN-10: 0307455068
ISBN-13: 9780307455062
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 03/10/2009
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.24w x 0.64d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 04/05/2009 pg. 20
By Naguib Mahfouz
By Naguib Mahfouz
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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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