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Who shot Kamar al-Dawla Alwan? Was it a crime of passion? What was
the role of the beautiful peasant girl called Rim? Is the
mysterious Sheikh Asfur as crazy as he seems? First published in
1937, Tawfik al-Hakim's partly autobiographical novel is written as
the journal of a young, stress-ridden prosecutor deployed by Cairo
to investigate a number of serious crimes in a rural village.
Imbued with the ideals of a European education, he encounters a
world of poverty and disarray, where an imported legal system is
both alien and incomprehensible. Both a comedy of errors and a
trenchant social satire, Diary of a Country Prosecutor takes aim at
wily peasants, clueless bureaucrats, a self-interested ruling class
and, of course, our hapless public servant. Hilarious, wry and
true, this classic of Egyptian literature has lost none of its
bite.
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