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The Coffeehouse
Contributor(s): Mahfouz, Naguib (Author), Stock, Raymond (Translator)
ISBN: 9774163516     ISBN-13: 9789774163517
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
OUR PRICE:   $17.96  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: February 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Political
- Fiction | Historical - General
Dewey: FIC
Series: Modern Arabic Literature (Hardcover)
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.2" W x 8.1" (0.70 lbs) 208 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Arabic
 
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Publisher Description:
A novel of loss and memory from the Egyptian Nobel laureate.

On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya, five young boys become friends for life, making a nearby café, Qushtumur, their favorite gathering spot forever. One is the narrator, who, looking back in his old age on their seven decades together, makes the other four the heroes of his tale, a Proustian (and classically Mahfouzian) quest in search of lost time and the memory of a much-changed place.

In a seamless stream of personal triumphs and tragedies, their lives play out against the backdrop of two world wars, the 1952 Free Officers coup, the defeat of 1967 and the redemption of 1973, the assassination of a president, and the simmering uncertainties of the transitional 1980s. But as their nation grows and their neighborhood turns from the green, villa-studded paradise of their youth to a dense urban desert of looming towers, they still find refuge in the one enduring landmark in their ever-fading world: the humble coffeehouse called Qushtumur.

Contributor Bio(s): Mahfouz, Naguib: - Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006) was born in the crowded Cairo district of Gamaliya. He wrote nearly 40 novel-length works, plus hundreds of short stories and numerous screenplays. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. His most recent works to appear in English translation are Before the Throne and The Mirage (both AUC Press, 2009).Stock, Raymond: - Raymond Stock, with a PhD in Near Eastern languages and civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania, is writing a biography of Naguib Mahfouz. He is the translator of numerous works by Mahfouz, most recently Before the Throne (2009).