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Dreams of Departure
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Publication Date:
2008-09-01
ISBN:
978-977-416-067-7
Format:
Hardback
Territory:
UK & Commonwealth
Category:
AUC Fiction - Distributed Titles
Pages:
140
By Naguib Mahfouz Translated by Raymond Stock
In this second collection of writing based on his own dreams serialized in a Cairo magazine before his death in 2006, Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz again displays his matchless ability to tell epic stories in uncannily terse form. We meet more of the real and unreal figures that filled the author’s life with glory and worry, ecstasy and ennui, in tales dreamed by a mind too fertile to ever truly rest.