Karnak Cafe
$28.36
- Paperback
101 pages
- Release Date
2 December 2008
Summary
In this gripping and suspenseful novella from the Egyptian Nobel Prize-winner, three young friends survive interrogation by the secret police, only to find their lives poisoned by suspicion, fear, and betrayal. At a Cairo cafe in the 1960s, a legendary former belly dancer lovingly presides over a boisterous family of regulars, including a group of idealistic university students. One day, amid reports of a wave of arrests, three of the students disappear: the excitable Hilmi, his friend Ismail…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780307390455 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0307390454 |
| Author: | Naguib Mahfouz |
| Publisher: | Anchor Books |
| Imprint: | Anchor |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 101 |
| Release Date: | 2 December 2008 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 130mm x 198mm |
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About The Author
Naguib Mahfouz
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ was born in 1911 in the crowded Cairo district of Gamaliya. He studied philosophy at Cairo University, then worked in various government ministries until his retirement in 1971. His first three published novels were Khufu’s Wisdom (1939), Rhadopis of Nubia (1943), and Thebes at War (1944), all of which are set in ancient Egypt. These political and philosophical critiques disguised as historical romances show the unmistakable signs of a burgeoning literary genius. He went on to write more than 35 other novel-length works, plus hundreds of short stories and numerous cinema plots a
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