Day the Leader Was Killed - Mahfouz Naguib
Day the Leader Was Killed - Mahfouz Naguib From the Nobel Prize laureate and author of the acclaimed Cairo Trilogy, a beguiling and artfully compact novel set in Sadat's Egypt.The time is 1981, Anwar…
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Day the Leader Was Killed - Mahfouz Naguib
From the Nobel Prize laureate and author of the acclaimed Cairo Trilogy, a beguiling and artfully compact novel set in Sadat's Egypt.The time is 1981, Anwar al-Sadat is president, and Egypt is lurching into the modern world. Rich with irony and infused with political undertones, the story is narrated alternately by the pious and mischievous family patriarch Muhtashimi Zayed, his hapless grandson Elwan, and Elwan's headstrong and beautiful fiancee Randa. Set against this backdrop, The Day the Leader Was Killed relates the tale of a middle-class Cairene family.
The Day the Leader Was Killed brings us the essence of Mahfouz's genius and is further proof that he has, in the words of the Nobel citation, -formed an Arabic narrative The novel reaches its climax with the assassination of Sadat on October 6, 1981, an event around which the fictional plot is skillfully woven.
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