The Beginning and the End - Hardcover

Mahfouz, Naguib

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9774241126 ISBN 13: 9789774241123

Publisher: Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1989

Synopsis

First published in 1956, this is a powerful portrayal of a middle-class Egyptian family confronted by material, moral, and spiritual problems during World War II.

About this title

About the Author:

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 many works, most famous is The Cairo Trilogy, consisting of Palace Walk (1956), Palace of Desire (1957), and Sugar Street (1957), which focuses on a Cairo family through three generations, from 1917 until 1952. In 1988, he was the first writer in Arabic to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in August 2006.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Arabic (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Cairo: American University in Cairo Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 9774241126
• ISBN 13: 9789774241123
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 379