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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780307455062
This unusual epic from the Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz
portrays five generations of one sprawling family against the
upheavals of two centuries of modern Egyptian history. Set in
Cairo, Morning and Evening Talk traces three related families from
the arrival of Napoleon to the 1980s, through short character
sketches arranged in alphabetical order. This highly experimental
device produces a kind of biographical dictionary, whose individual
entries come together to paint a vivid portrait of life in Cairo
from a range of perspectives. The characters include
representatives of every class and human type and as the intricate
family saga unfolds, a powerful picture of a society in transition
emerges. This is a tale of change and continuity, of the death of a
traditional way of life and the road to independence and beyond,
seen through the eyes of Egypt’s citizens. Naguib Mahfouz’s last
chronicle of Cairo is both an elegy to a bygone era and a tribute
to the Egyptian spirit.
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