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242 pages • first pub 1945 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9789774161568
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Publication date: 15 May 2008
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In Naguib Mahfouz's suspenseful novel a bitter and ambitious nihilist, a beautiful and impoverished student, and a corrupt official engage in a doomed ménage à trois.Cairo of the 1930s is a place of vast social and economic inequities. It is also ...
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242 pages • first pub 1945 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9789774161568
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Publication date: 15 May 2008
Description
In Naguib Mahfouz's suspenseful novel a bitter and ambitious nihilist, a beautiful and impoverished student, and a corrupt official engage in a doomed ménage à trois.Cairo of the 1930s is a place of vast social and economic inequities. It is also ...
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