Description:
US: The American University in C., 1997. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. From the Nobel Prize laureate and author of the acclaimed Cairo Trilogy, a beguiling and artfully compact novel set in Sadat's Egypt. 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.
No image available
The Day the Leader Was Killed Hardcover - 1997
by Naguib Mahfouz; Malak Hashem (Translator)
Details
- Title The Day the Leader Was Killed
- Author Naguib Mahfouz; Malak Hashem (Translator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First English Ed
- Pages 96
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher American University in Cairo Press, , Cairo, Egypt
- Date 1997
- ISBN 9789774244544 / 9774244540
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
More Copies for Sale
The Day the Leader Was Killed
by Mahfouz, Naguib
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good/Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 13
- 9789774244544
- ISBN 10
- 9774244540
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Tokyo, Japan
- Item Price
-
$23.50$12.00 shipping to USA
Show Details
Item Price
$23.50
$12.00
shipping to USA
The Day The Leader Was Killed
by Mahfouz, Naguib
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - , there is a very slight shading of the block edges but the book is in near fine condition
- Edition
- First English Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 13
- 9789774244544
- ISBN 10
- 9774244540
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Skipton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
$63.86$25.54 shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
, [6] 89 [5] pages, fist published in Arabic in 1985, translated by Malak Hashem
Item Price
$63.86
$25.54
shipping to USA