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Miramar (Translation)
[Paperback - 1993]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Additional Category: Middle Eastern Studies
Publisher: Anchor | ISBN: 9780385264785 | Pages: 192
Shipping Weight: .173 | Dimensions: 5.16 x .53 x 7.97 inches

A highly charged, tightly written tale of intersecting lives, by the master of Middle Eastern fiction, Miramar provides an engaging and powerful story as well as a vivid portrait of life in Egypt in the late 1960s. In the pension Miramar, a young girl hired to do chores for the residents provokes jealousies and conflicts that inevitably lead to violence and tragedy. -- Provided by publisher.

Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006) is regarded by many as the greatest Arabic writer of the twentieth century. Born in the old Islamic Quarter of Cairo in 1911, he began writing when he was seventeen before entering university to study as a student of philosophy in 1930. He is the author of over thirty novels - including a number of masterpieces, such as The Cairo Trilogy and Children of the Alley - as well as numerous screenplays and essays. In 1988 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.Rasheed El-Enany is Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, as well as Professor Emeritus of Modern Arabic Literature, University of Exeter. He has authored several books on Naguib Mahfouz, including Naguib Mahfouz: His Life and Times. He is also the translator of the Mahfouz novel Respected Sir.Aran Byrne is an Arabic language graduate of SOAS (University of London) and Oxford University. He was co-translator of Democracy Is the Answer by the best-selling Egyptian writer Alaa Al Aswany.

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