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The Day the Leader Was Killed

By Naguib Mahfouz

By Naguib Mahfouz

By Naguib Mahfouz

By Naguib Mahfouz

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Jun 06, 2000 | ISBN 9780385499224

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    About The Day the Leader Was Killed

    From the Nobel Prize laureate and author of the acclaimed Cairo Trilogy, a beguiling and artfully compact novel set in Sadat’s Egypt.

    The time is 1981, Anwar al-Sadat is president, and Egypt is lurching into the modern world. Set against this backdrop, The Day the Leader Was Killed relates the tale of a middle-class Cairene family. Rich with irony and infused with political undertones, the story is narrated alternately by the pious and mischievous family patriarch Muhtashimi Zayed, his hapless grandson Elwan, and Elwan’s headstrong and beautiful fiancee Randa.  The novel reaches its climax with the assassination of Sadat on October 6, 1981, an event around which the fictional plot is skillfully woven. The Day the Leader Was Killed brings us the essence of Mahfouz’s genius and is further proof that he has, in the words of the Nobel citation, “formed an Arabic narrative art that applies to all mankind.”

    About The Day the Leader Was Killed

    From the Nobel Prize laureate and author of the acclaimed Cairo Trilogy, a beguiling and artfully compact novel set in Sadat’s Egypt.

    The time is 1981, Anwar al-Sadat is president, and Egypt is lurching into the modern world. Set against this backdrop, The Day the Leader Was Killed relates the tale of a middle-class Cairene family. Rich with irony and infused with political undertones, the story is narrated alternately by the pious and mischievous family patriarch Muhtashimi Zayed, his hapless grandson Elwan, and Elwan’s headstrong and beautiful fiancee Randa.  The novel reaches its climax with the assassination of Sadat on October 6, 1981, an event around which the fictional plot is skillfully woven. The Day the Leader Was Killed brings us the essence of Mahfouz’s genius and is further proof that he has, in the words of the Nobel citation, “formed an Arabic narrative art that applies to all mankind.”

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    About Naguib Mahfouz

    Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. His nearly forty novels and hundreds of short stories range from re-imaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. Of his… More about Naguib Mahfouz

    About Naguib Mahfouz

    Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. His nearly forty novels and hundreds of short stories range from re-imaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. Of his… More about Naguib Mahfouz

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $13.95
    Published by Anchor
    Jun 06, 2000 | 112 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780385499224

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $7.99
    Published by Anchor
    Nov 26, 2008 | 112 Pages | ISBN 9780307483614
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    Praise

    Praise for Naguib Mahfouz:

    “The greatest writer in one of the most widely understood languages in the world, a storyteller of the first order in any idiom.” —Vanity Fair

    “A Dickens of the Cairo cafes.” —Newsweek

    “The incredible variety of Naguib Mahfouz’s writings continue to dazzle our eyes.” —The Washington Post

    “Naguib Mahfouz virtually invented the novel as an Arab form. He excels at fusing deep emotion and soap opera.” —The New York Times Book Review

    “Mahfouz’s work is freshly nuanced and hauntingly lyrical. The Nobel Prize acknowledges the universal significance of his fiction.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review

    Awards

    Nobel Prize WINNER 1988

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