DAY THE LEADER WAS KILLED, THE(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　AN ANCHOR PAPERBACK ORIGINAL From the Nobel Prize laureate and
author of the acclaimed Cairo Trilogy, a beguiling and artfully
compact novel set in Sadat’s Egypt. ” Mahfouz] is not only a Hugo
and a Dickens, but also a Galsworthy, Zola and a Jules Romain.”
–Edward Said The time is 1981, Anwar al-Sadat is president, and
Egypt is lurching into the modern world. Set against this backdrop,
The Day the Leader Was Killed relates the tale of a middle-class
Cairene family. 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. The
novel reaches its climax with the assassination of Sadat on October
6, 1981, an event around which the fictional plot is skillfully
woven. 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 art that applies
to all mankind.”