This unusual epic from the Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz 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 sho
Morning and Evening Talk
โ Scribed by Mahfouz, Naguib
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Anchor Books
- Year
- 2011;2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 137 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
This is a tale of change and continuity, of the death of a traditional way of life, the road to independence and beyond, seen through the eyes of Egypt's citizens. Naguib Mahfouz's last chronicle of Cairo is an elegy to a bygone era and a tribute to the Egyptian spirit.
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