The Time and the Place and Other Stories
โ Scribed by Mahfouz, Naguib
- Book ID
- 109150358
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 335 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780385264723
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Selected and translated by the distinguished scholar Denys Johnson-Daivies, these stories have all the celebrated and distinctive characters and qualities found in Mahfouz's novels: The denizens of the dark, narrow alleyways of Cairo, who struggle to survive the poverty; melancholy ruminations on death; experiments with the supernatural; and witty excursions into Cairene middle-class life.
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