The Dreams
by Naguib Mahfouz
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 977424866X
- ISBN 13
- 9789774248665
- Seller
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About This Item
Doubleday, New York, 2004. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover. 126 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Doubleday, New York, 2004. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in fine condition and comes in near fine dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Edges of dust jacket have superficial wear. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: In this new collection of his shortest short stories, the Egyptian Nobel laureate has reduced fictional form to its most essential level, while retaining his justifiably famous mastery of the storytelling art. A man finds that all the streets in this neighborhood have turned into a circus - but his joy at the sight changes to anger when he sees he cannot escape it anywhere, even in his own home. A group of lifelong friends meet to trade jokes in a familiar alley - only to face a sudden, deadly flood that echoes the revenge taken by an ancient Egyptian queen upon the men who murdered her husband. A girl from the dreamer's childhood flies with him from his native lane on a cart drawn by a winged horse, to become a star in the firmament above the Great Pyramid. Such is the stuff of Naguib Mahfouz's The Dreams - his first major work since a knife attack by a religious fanatic in 1994 left him unable to write for several years. First serialized in a Cairo magazine, The Dreams is a unique and haunting mixture of the deceptively quotidian, the seductively lyrical, and the savagely nightmarish - the richly condensed sum of more than nine decades of artistic genius and everyday experience. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Short Stories; ISBN: 977424866X. ISBN/EAN: 9789774248665. Inventory No: 24030060.. 9789774248665
Synopsis
Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1989. He died in Cairo in 2006.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24030060
- Title
- The Dreams
- Author
- Naguib Mahfouz
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 977424866X
- ISBN 13
- 9789774248665
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; The Dreams
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short Stories; Fiction;
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