New York:: Doubleday,, (1989). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a fair only dustjacket. with a large chip on back cover, other edgewear.. First thus. First Doubleday edition of this early novel by the 1988 Nobel laureate, the first Arab to win this award. Originally published in 1949 in Arabic and translated in 1985 by Ramses Awad for the American University Press in Cairo. In telling the story of one proud - and eventually shattered - Egyptian family, Mahfouz exposes the inequities of the country's society. Introduction by the translator; edited by Mason Rossiter Smith. 412 pp.

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Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. A student of philosophy and an avid reader, his works range from reimaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. Over a career that lasted more than five decades, he wrote 33 novels, 13 short story anthologies, numerous plays, and 30 screenplays. Of his many works, most famous is The Cairo Trilogy, consisting of Palace Walk (1956), Palace of Desire (1957), and Sugar Street (1957), which focuses on a Cairo family through three generations, from 1917 until 1952. In 1988, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first writer in Arabic to do so. He died in August 2006.

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Bookseller's Inventory #: 88501
Title: THE BEGINNING AND THE END.
Author: Mahfouz, Naguib (1911-2006)
Format/Binding: Hardcover first edition -
Book Condition: Used - Very near fine in a fair only dustjacket. with a large chip on back cover, other edgewear.
Jacket Condition: fair only
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0385264577
ISBN 13: 9780385264570
Publisher: Doubleday,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date Published: (1989)
Keywords: egypt, nobel prize
Bookseller catalogs: Literature in translation;

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