Screen LibraryKarnak Café : a novel /
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. Now translated into English for the first time, Naguib Mahfouz's tale of the inisdio...
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Anchor Books,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: |
2008. ©2007 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English Arabic |
| Edition: | First Anchor books edition. |
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| Summary: |
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. Now translated into English for the first time, Naguib Mahfouz's tale of the inisdious effects of govenrment-sanctioned torture and the suspension of rights and freeodms in a time of crisis is shockingly contemporary. -- Provided by publisher. |
| Item Description: |
"First published in Arabic in 1974 as al-Karnak"--Title page verso. "Originally published in hardcover in the United States by The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo and New York, in 2007"--Title page verso. "Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in literature"--Cover. |
| Carrier Form: | 101 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780307390455 (paperback) : 0307390454 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | PJ7846 |
| CLC: | I411.45 |
| Call Number: | I411.45/M214-23 |