โ Ronald Williams
๐ Fiction
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2018
๐ English
โ 41 KB
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โฆ LIBER โฆ
The Day the Leader Was Killed
โ Scribed by Naguib Mahfouz
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Anchor Books
- Year
- 2012;2008
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 53 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780385264709
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
AN ANCHOR PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
From the Nobel Prize laureate and author of the acclaimed Cairo Trilogy, a beguiling and artfully compact novel set in Sadat's Egypt.
"[Mahfouz] is not only a Hugo and a Dickens, but also a Galsworthy, Zola and a Jules Romain."--Edward Said
The time is 1981, Anwar al-Sadat is president, and Egypt is lurching into the modern world. Set against this backdrop, The Day the Leader Was Killed relates the tale of a middle-class Cairene family. Rich with irony and infused with political undertones, the story is narrated alternately by the pious and mischievous family patriarch Muhtashimi Zayed, his hapless grandson Elwan, and Elwan's headstrong and beautiful fiancee Randa. The novel reaches its climax with the assassination of Sadat on October 6, 1981, an event around which the fictional plot is skillfully woven.
The Day the Leader Was Killed brings us the essence of Mahfouz's genius and is further proof that he...
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