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Thebes at War

✍ Scribed by Mahfouz, Naguib

Book ID
109150226
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; Anchor
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
254 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780307429674

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✦ Synopsis

Overview: NAGUIB MAHFOUZ (1911-2006) was an Egyptian novelist, playwright and screenwriter. In 1988 he became the first writer in Arabic to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. The prize citation praised Mahfouz "who, through works rich in nuanceβ€”now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguousβ€”has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind."

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