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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780307390455
In this gripping and suspenseful novella from the Egyptian
Nobel Prize-winner, three young friends survive interrogation by
the secret police, only to find their lives poisoned by suspicion,
fear, and betrayal. At a Cairo cafe in the 1960s, a legendary
former belly dancer lovingly presides over a boisterous family of
regulars, including a group of idealistic university students. One
day, amid reports of a wave of arrests, three of the students
disappear: the excitable Hilmi, his friend Ismail, and Ismail’s
beautiful girlfriend Zaynab. When they return months later, they
are apparently unharmed and yet subtly and profoundly changed. It
is only years later, after their lives have been further shattered,
that the narrator pieces together the young people’s horrific
stories and learns how the government used them against one
another. In a riveting final chapter, their torturer himself enters
the Cafe and sits among his former victims, claiming a right to
join their society of the disillusioned. Now translated into
English for the first time, Naguib Mahfouz’s tale of the insidious
effects of government-sanctioned torture and the suspension of
rights and freedoms in a time of crisis is shockingly
contemporary.
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