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The Cairo of Naguib Mahfouz (Hardcover) Loot Price: R610
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The Cairo of Naguib Mahfouz (Hardcover): Britta Le Va

The Cairo of Naguib Mahfouz (Hardcover)

Britta Le Va; Gamal al-Ghitani; Foreword by Naguib Mahfouz

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For Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, Cairo has always been a place of special resonance. As the place in which he was born and has lived his whole life, it is a city he loves passionately and has visited and revisited in his writing. It is the setting for nearly all his novels and short stories, not merely as a backdrop but as an integral part of his fiction, playing its own role in the dramas. The old streets of the Cairo Trilogy and the microcosmic cul-de-sac of Midaq Alley become fictional characters as fascinating as the human ones for Naguib Mahfouz. A longtime admirer of the novels of Naguib Mahfouz, photographer Britta Le Va discovered old Cairo through his works. Here, she guides us through his pages, and treads his streets and alleys, to produce a collection of outstanding visual images of the historic city. Each complements a verbal image selected from Mahfouz's writings. In his introduction, novelist Gamal al-Ghitani describes a walking tour with the great man around the streets of Gamaliya, that historic heart of the old city where both of them--more than thirty years apart--were born and grew up. Along the way, Mahfouz reminisces and remarks on what had changed and what had not in eight decades.

General

Imprint: The American University In Cairo Press
Country of origin: Egypt
Release date: July 2012
First published: September 2012
Photographers: Britta Le Va
Authors: Gamal al-Ghitani
Foreword by: Naguib Mahfouz
Dimensions: 219 x 217 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 978-977-416-552-8
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > General
LSN: 977-416-552-7
Barcode: 9789774165528

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