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The Seventh Heaven

Supernatural Tales

Supernatural Tales

By Naguib Mahfouz
Translated by Raymond Stock

By Naguib Mahfouz
Translated by Raymond Stock

By Naguib Mahfouz
Translated by Raymond Stock

By Naguib Mahfouz
Translated by Raymond Stock

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Category: Fiction

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Dec 05, 2006 | ISBN 9780307277145

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Feb 10, 2010 | ISBN 9780307490766

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    About The Seventh Heaven

    Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz draws on his homeland’s rich engagement with the afterlife–and his own near-death experience at the hands of a would-be assassin–in these newly translated, brilliantly mysterious stories of the supernatural.

     Among those who haunt these tales are the ghosts of Akhenaten, Woodrow Wilson, and Gamal Abd al-Nasser, who endure a strange system of earthly probation in the hope of gaining entry to the fabled Seventh Heaven; a teenager drawn into the secret, enchanted life he finds within his neighborhood’s forbidden wood; an honest perfume seller accosted on a night out by angry skeletons; and Satan himself, who confesses that there is still, despite the flood of evil in our times, an honorable man in the land. As ingenious at capturing the surreal as he is at documenting the very real social landscape of modern Cairo, Mahfouz guides these restless spirits as they migrate from the shadowy realms of other worlds to the haunted precincts of our own.

    Translated by Raymond Stock

    About The Seventh Heaven

    Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz draws on his homeland’s rich engagement with the afterlife–and his own near-death experience at the hands of a would-be assassin–in these newly translated, brilliantly mysterious stories of the supernatural.

     Among those who haunt these tales are the ghosts of Akhenaten, Woodrow Wilson, and Gamal Abd al-Nasser, who endure a strange system of earthly probation in the hope of gaining entry to the fabled Seventh Heaven; a teenager drawn into the secret, enchanted life he finds within his neighborhood’s forbidden wood; an honest perfume seller accosted on a night out by angry skeletons; and Satan himself, who confesses that there is still, despite the flood of evil in our times, an honorable man in the land. As ingenious at capturing the surreal as he is at documenting the very real social landscape of modern Cairo, Mahfouz guides these restless spirits as they migrate from the shadowy realms of other worlds to the haunted precincts of our own.

    Translated by Raymond Stock

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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: Fiction

    Paperback | $14.00
    Published by Anchor
    Dec 05, 2006 | 192 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307277145

    Category: Fiction

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Anchor
    Feb 10, 2010 | 192 Pages | ISBN 9780307490766

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    Praise

    “Mahfouz’s work is freshly nuanced and hauntingly lyrical.” —Los Angeles Times

    “A storyteller of the first order in any idiom.” —Vanity Fair

    Awards

    Nobel Prize WINNER 1988

    Table Of Contents

    Translator’s Introduction

    The Seventh Heaven
    The Disturbing Occurrences
    Room No. 12
    The Garden Passage
    Forgetfulness
    Beyond the Clouds
    The Haunted Woods
    The Vapor of Darkness
    A Man of Awesome Power
    The Only Man
    The Rose Garden
    The Reception Hall
    A Warning from Afar

    Arabic Text Sources

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