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Nov
1998
412 pp.
Paperback
12.50 x 19.50 cm
$16.95
LE
75.00
ISBN
978 977 424 112 3
For sale only in the Middle East
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The Beginning and the End
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Naguib Mahfouz
Translated by
Ramses Awad
Edited by
Mason Rossiter Smith
Set in Cairo during World War II, this novel is a masterpiece of human compassion reflecting with sympathy and well-balanced pathos the material, moral, and spiritual problems of an Egyptian family.
Suddenly confronted with poverty when the father, its sole support, dies unexpectedly, the family's middle-class respectability and conformity can only be supported on the backs of a brother and a sister who sacrifice their own reputations by immersing themselves in the seamy underworld of Cairo.
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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