The Day the Leader Was Killed Paperback - 2000
by Naguib Mahfouz
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.
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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."
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- Title The Day the Leader Was Killed
- Author Naguib Mahfouz
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Softcover
- Pages 112
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Anchor Books, New York
- Date June 6, 2000
- ISBN 9780385499224 / 0385499221
- Weight 0.28 lbs (0.13 kg)
- Dimensions 7.97 x 5.19 x 0.34 in (20.24 x 13.18 x 0.86 cm)
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- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00024572
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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