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Morning and Evening Talk

Morning and Evening Talk

Mahfouz, Naguib

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 0307455068
ISBN13: 9780307455062
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Mar 10 2009
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.24 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Cairo Trilogy and a storyteller of the first order (Vanity Fair) comes an epic novel that portrays five generations of one sprawling family against the upheavals of two centuries of modern Egyptian history.

Set in Cairo, Morning and Evening Talk traces three related families from the arrival of Napoleon to the 1980s, through short character sketches arranged in alphabetical order. This highly experimental device produces a kind of biographical dictionary, whose individual entries come together to paint a vivid portrait of life in Cairo from a range of perspectives. The characters include representatives of every class and human type and as the intricate family saga unfolds, a powerful picture of a society in transition emerges. This is a tale of change and continuity, of the death of a traditional way of life and the road to independence and beyond, seen through the eyes of Egypt's citizens. Naguib Mahfouz's last chronicle of Cairo is both an elegy to a bygone era and a tribute to the Egyptian spirit.

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