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Nov
1998
190 pp.
Paperback
12.00 x 20.00 cm
$15.95
LE
65.00
ISBN
978 977 424 091 1
For sale only in the Middle East
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Miramar
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Naguib Mahfouz
Translated by
Fatma Moussa Mahmoud
Edited and revised by
Maged el-Kommos
John Rodenbeck
The setting is Alexandria in the early 1960s where six characters, all made exiles by circumstances, are brought together in the decayed elegance of the Pension Miramar. The central figure is Zohra, the beautiful peasant girl, whose relationship with the other five characters symbolically reflects the most basic political and social realities of the period.
Naguib Mahfouz was born in 1911 in the crowded Cairo district of Gamaliya. He wrote nearly 40 novel-length works, plus hundreds of short stories and numerous cinema plots and scenarios. He was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1988. He died in Cairo on August 30, 2006 at the age of 94.
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