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Autumn Quail

Autumn Quail

by Naguib Mahfouz

128 Pages, 9.05 x 5.90 in

Paperback
9789774168956
November 2018
Region: Egypt

LE300.00

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This is the story of one man and the Egyptian Revolution of 1952. Isa al-Dabbagh is a senior civil servant in the Egyptian government who loses his job and his fiancée when the Purge Committees of the 1952 Egyptian Revolution bring his venal past to light. His personal relationships reflect the resulting internal conflict he suffers between mind and heart, between intellectual acceptance of the Revolution and the basic emotional instincts that hold him back.

Naguib Mahfouz was born in 1911 in the crowded Cairo district of Gamaliya. He wrote nearly 40 novel-length works, plus hundreds of short stories and numerous cinema plots and scenarios. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. He died in Cairo on August 30, 2006 at the age of 94.

Roger Allen is professor emeritus of Arabic language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his translations are Naguib Mahfouz’s Mirrors and Karnak Café, (AUC Press, 1999, 2007) and Bensalem Himmich’s The Polymath and The Theocrat (AUC Press, 2000, 2005).

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