The beginning and the end / Naguib Mahfouz ; translated by Ramses Awad ; edited by Mason Rossiter Smith.
With this realistic 1949 novel, Najib Mahfouz reveals to Western readers the woes of a petit bourgeois family thrust into poverty in WW II Cairo. The Kamels' private battles, relayed here in engrossing detail, are a microcosm of the Egyptian nation's birth pangs in gaining independence. Wh...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English Arabic |
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New York :
Doubleday,
1989.
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Edition: | First Doubleday edition. |
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Main Collection
Call Number: |
PJ7846.A46 B513 1989 |
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Status: | Available Request this item |