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Cairo Modern

by Naguib Mahfouz; William M. Hutchins (Translator)

Synopsis

In Naguib Mahfouz's suspenseful novel a bitter and ambitious nihilist, a beautiful and impoverished student, and a corrupt official engage in a doomed menage a trois. Cairo of the 1930s is a place of vast social and economic inequities. It is also a time of change, when the universities have just opened to women and heady new philosophies imported from Europe are stirring up debates among the young. Mahgub is a fiercely proud student who is determined to keep both his poverty and his lack of principles secret from his idealistic friends. When he finds that there are no jobs for those without connections, out of desperation he agrees to participate in an elaborate deception. But what begins as a mere strategy for survival soon becomes much more for both Mahgub and his partner in crime, an equally desperate young woman named Ihsan. As they make their way through Cairo's lavish high society their precarious charade begins to unravel and the terrible price of Mahgub's Faustian bargain becomes clear. Translated by William M. Hutchins"

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Book Information

Copyright year 2008
ISBN-13 9780307473530
ISBN-10 0307473538
Class Copyright
Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Subject FICTION
File Size 0 MB
Number of Pages 256
Length of Recording 7
Shelf No. JY388