The Coffeehouse
On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya, five young boys become friends for life, making a nearby café, Qushtumur, their favorite gathering spot forever. One is the narrator, who, looking back in his old age on their seven decades together, makes the other four the heroes of his tale, a Proustian (and classically Mahfouzian) quest in search of lost time and the memory of a much-changed place. In a seamless stream of personal triumphs and tragedies, their lives play out against the backdrop of two world wars, the 1952 Free Officers coup, the defeat of 1967 and the redemption of 1973, the assassination of a president, an…
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Weitere Autoren: Stock, Raymond (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-977-416-351-7
- EAN: 9789774163517
- Produktnummer: 5633218
- Verlag: Amer Univ In Cairo Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 145 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.2 cm x D1.8 cm 318 g
- Gewicht: 318
Über den Autor
Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006) was born in the crowded Cairo district of Gamaliya. He wrote nearly 40 novel-length works, plus hundreds of short stories and numerous screenplays. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. His most recent works to appear in English translation are Before the Throne and The Mirage (both AUC Press, 2009).Raymond Stock, with a PhD in Near Eastern languages and civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania, is writing a biography of Naguib Mahfouz. He is the translator of numerous works by Mahfouz, most recently Before the Throne (2009).
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