Isa ad-Dabbagh, a young bureaucrat and one of the early victims of the purge following the 1952 Revolution is the central figure of this tale of moral responsibility, alienation, and political downfall
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About the Author:
Naguib Mahfouz was most prominent literary figure in the Arab world of the Twentieth Century, best known for his Cairo Trilogy (Palace Walk, Palace of Desire and Sugar Street), which became an international bestseller. He was born in Cairo in 1911 and lived in the suburb of Agouza with his wife and two daughters for the rest of his life. He published more than thirty novels as well as many collections of short stories, plays and screenplays. In 1988, Mr Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first Arab writer to win it. In 1994, after the publication of a novel that led him into trouble with Egypt's religious authorities, an attempt was made on his life, but he died peacefully in 2006, aged ninety-four.
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- PublisherAnchor Books
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0385264542
- ISBN 13 9780385264549
- BindingPaperback
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