Morning and Evening Talk
Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
ISBN: 9780307455062
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 10 Mar 2009
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback / softback
b>From the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Cairo Trilogy and "a storyteller of the first order" (i>Vanity Fair/i>) comes an epic novel that portrays five generations of one sprawling family against the upheavals of two centuries of modern Egyptian history./b>br>br> Set in Cairo, i>Morning and Evening Talk/i> 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.
ISBN: 9780307455062
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 10 Mar 2009
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback / softback
b>From the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Cairo Trilogy and "a storyteller of the first order" (i>Vanity Fair/i>) comes an epic novel that portrays five generations of one sprawling family against the upheavals of two centuries of modern Egyptian history./b>br>br> Set in Cairo, i>Morning and Evening Talk/i> 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.
