Echoes of an Autobiography
by Mahfouz, Naguib
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385485557
- ISBN 13
- 9780385485555
- Seller
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Albany, California, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. A student of philosophy and an avid reader, his works range from reimaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. Over a career that lasted more than five decades, he wrote 33 novels, 13 short story anthologies, numerous plays, and 30 screenplays. Of his many works, most famous is The Cairo Trilogy, consisting of Palace Walk (1956), Palace of Desire (1957), and Sugar Street (1957), which focuses on a Cairo family through three generations, from 1917 until 1952. In 1988, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first writer in Arabic to do so. He died in August 2006.
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- Bookseller
- Lost Paddle Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LPB000558NM
- Title
- Echoes of an Autobiography
- Author
- Mahfouz, Naguib
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US Edition/First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0385485557
- ISBN 13
- 9780385485555
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- Mahfouz, Naguib palace walk palace of desire Echoes of an Autobiography journey of ibn fattouma arabian days and nights children of gebelawi sugar street adrift on the nile The Beginning and the End midaq alley
- Bookseller catalogs
- Arabic Literature;
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