Cairo Modern
by Mahfouz, Naguib
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Cairo Modern, Mahfouz, Naguib. Published by American University in Cairo Press, Cairo, Egypt & New York, 2008. First U.S. Edition; First Printing. Translated from the Arabic by William M. Hutchins. 8vo up to 9½" tall.,242 pp. Pictorial boards, brown endpapers; unclipped dustjacket. In fine, unread condition. An Arabic Novel. Naguib Mahfouz was awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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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 2006.
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- Cairo Modern
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