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Adrift On The Nile
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10,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Transworld Publishers |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 30.01.2013 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781448168460 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 176 |
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Beschreibungen
This moving and perceptive story centres upon a group of disaffected middle-class Cairenes who gather on a house-boat on the River Nile every evening to smoke kif, drink, and discuss politics. Their host is an addict, so dependent that he is in danger of losing his job.One evening they venture out for a drive which ends in tragedy, destroying their easy camaraderie and exposing the frailty of human relationships. In his elegant but economic prose, Mahfouz once again creates - out of the simplest of plots - a telling commentary on human nature.
"The combination of calm unsparingness, wry humour, regret and melancholy...testifies to how much his work has richly inherited from Chekhov's."
A stunning novel by the Arab world's only Nobel Prize-winning author.
Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. A student of philosophy and an avid reader, he was influenced by many Western writers, including Flaubert, Balzac, Zola, Camus, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and, above all, Proust. He has more than thirty novels to his credit, ranging from his earliest historical romances to later experimental novels. In 1988, Mr Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in 2006.
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