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The Thief and the Dogs

The Thief and the Dogs

The Thief and the Dogs

by Naguib Mahfouz

100 Pages, 9.05 x 5.90 in

Paperback
9789774167041
May 2015
Region: Egypt

LE300.00

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A thriller in form, a political and ethical analysis in substance. A professional thief and would-be killer, Said is an Egyptian Robin Hood whose thefts are motivated by powerful egalitarian principles, as well as by bitterness. His burning desire for revenge against those who betrayed him to the police carries him to the heights and depths of Cairo society during the early years of the 1952 Revolution.

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.

M.M. Badawi was an emeritus fellow of St. Antony's College Oxford, where he was the first person to teach Modern Arabic Literature. In 1992 he was awarded the King Faisal International Prize in Arabic Literature. Trevor Le Gassick is professor of Arabic literature at the International Institute of the University of Michigan and is the translator of a number of Arabic novels.

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