The Day the Leader Was Killed
Autor Naguib Mahfouzen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 mar 2000
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 has, in the words of the Nobel citation, "formed an Arabic narrative art that applies to all mankind."
Preț: 74.67 lei
Nou
Puncte Express: 112
Preț estimativ în valută:
14.29€ • 14.99$ • 11.86£
14.29€ • 14.99$ • 11.86£
Carte disponibilă
Livrare economică 08-22 ianuarie 25
Livrare express 24-28 decembrie pentru 15.21 lei
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76
Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780385499224
ISBN-10: 0385499221
Pagini: 112
Dimensiuni: 132 x 202 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.13 kg
Editura: Anchor Books
ISBN-10: 0385499221
Pagini: 112
Dimensiuni: 132 x 202 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.13 kg
Editura: Anchor Books
V-ar putea interesa
-
Preț: 88.79 lei -
Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous YouthXiaolu GuoPreț: 97.89 lei -
Karnak CafeNaguib MahfouzPreț: 99.88 lei -
Cairo ModernNaguib MahfouzPreț: 116.42 lei -
The Thief and the DogsNaguib MahfouzPreț: 87.49 lei -
Drift: StoriesVictoria PattersonPreț: 89.37 lei -
Flight: A NovelSherman AlexiePreț: 93.22 lei -
The ExceptionChristian JungersenPreț: 120.34 lei -
The FlamethrowersRachel KushnerPreț: 105.43 lei
Notă biografică
Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911. The author of more than thirty novels and fourteen collections of short stories, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988. He lives with his family in the Cairo suburb of Agouza.
Recenzii
"The incredible variety of Naguib Mahfouz's writings continue[s] to dazzle our eyes."--The Washington Post
"Mahfouz's work is freshly nuanced and hauntingly lyrical. The Nobel Prize acknowledges the universal significance of his fiction."--Los Angeles Times
"Mahfouz's work is freshly nuanced and hauntingly lyrical. The Nobel Prize acknowledges the universal significance of his fiction."--Los Angeles Times
Descriere
From the Novel Prize laureate and author of the acclaimed "Cairo Trilogy" comes a beguiling and artfully compact novel about a middle-class family in modern-day Egypt and the events that lead to the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981.