Adrift on the Nile - Couverture souple

Mahfuz, Najib

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0385404735 ISBN 13 : 9780385404730

Editeur : Doubleday, 1994

Synopsis

Book by Mahfouz Naguib

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

First published in 1966, Naguib Mahfouz’s Adrift on the Nile is an atmospheric novel that dramatizes the rootlessness of Egypt’s cosmopolitan middle class. Anis Zani is a bored and drug-addicted civil servant who is barely holding on to his job. Every evening he hosts a gathering on a houseboat on the Nile, where he and a motley group of cynical and aimless friends share a water pipe full of kif, a mixture of tobacco and marijuana. When a young female journalist—an “alarmingly serious person”—joins them and begins secretly documenting their activities, the group’s harmony starts disintegrating, culminating in a midnight joyride that ends in tragedy.

Biographie de l'auteur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Doubleday
• Date d'édition: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0385404735
• ISBN 13: 9780385404730
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176