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Description
Old, ill, and comforted only by his memories, patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad watches as his grandsons become respectively a communist, a Muslim fundamentalist, and the paramour of a high-ranking politician. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
First Sentence
Their heads were huddled around the brazier, and their hands were spread over its fire: Amina's thin and gaunt, Aisha's stiff, and Umm Hanafi's like the shell of a turtle.
Table of Contents
Series
This is book 3 in the Cairo Trilogy series.
Authors & Contributors
- Naguib Mahfouz (Author)
Other Contributors:
- William Maynard Hutchins (Translator)
- Angele Botros Samaan (Translator)
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