The Mirage by Mahfouz, Naguib

The Mirage (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307742582)

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The Mirage by Mahfouz, Naguib

The Mirage

$23.00
The Mirage by Mahfouz, Naguib

The Mirage

$23.00
Format: Paperback
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A stunning example of Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz's psychological portraiture, The Mirage is the story of an intense young man who has been so dominated by his mother that her death sets him dangerously adrift in a world he cannot manage alone.

Kamil Ru'ba is a tortured soul who hopes that writing the story of his life will help him gain control of it. Raised by a mother who fled her abusive husband and became overbearingly possessive and protective toward her young son, he has long been isolated emotionally and physically. Now in his twenties, Kamil seeks to escape her posthumous grasp. Finding and successfully courting the woman of his dreams seems to promise salvation, until his ignorance of mature love and his fear and jealousy lead to tragedy.


Author: Naguib Mahfouz
ISBN-10: 030774258X
ISBN-13: 9780307742582
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 02/14/2012
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.19w x 1.07d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 02/26/2012 pg. 24
By Naguib Mahfouz
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Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. His nearly forty novels and hundreds of short stories range from re-imaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. Of his many works, most famous is The Cairo Trilogy, consisting of Palace Walk (1956), Palace of Desire (1957), and Sugar Street (1957), which focuses on a Cairo family through three generations, from 1917 until 1952. In 1988, he was the first writer in Arabic to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in August 2006.

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