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English edition
Jan
1987
142 pp.
Paperback
12.5X19.5 cm
$14.95
LE 60.00
ISBN
978 977 424 160 4
For sale only in the Middle East
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The Search
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Naguib Mahfouz
Translated by
Mohamed Islam
Edited by
Magdi Wahba
In The Search a young man, hoping to escape a sordid background and an impoverished future, sets out to find the father he has never known. But in the course of his quest he becomes entangled with two women and is enticed into murder. The significance of the novel lies mainly in its symbolic nature and in its possible readings: is the young man searching for his roots, for religious belief, for national traditions, or for political identity?
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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