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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Anchor Books
Publication date July 14, 2009
Pages 276
Binding Paperback
Edition Reprint
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780307455079
ISBN-10 0307455076
Dimensions 0.50 by 5 by 7.75 in.
Weight 0.50 lbs.
Original list price $15.00
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In his final years, Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz distilled his storyteller's art to its most essential level. Written with the compression and power of dreams, these poetic vignettes, originally collected in two books, The Dreams and Dreams of Departure, here combined in one volume for the first time.

 These stories telescope epic tales into tersely haunting miniatures. A man finds his neighborhood has turned into a circus, but his joy turns to anger when he cannot escape it. An obscure writer finally achieves fame-through the epitaph on his grave. A group of friends telling jokes in an alley face the murderous revenge of an ancient Egyptian queen. Figures from Mahfouz's past-women he loved, men who inspired him, even fictional characters from his own novels-float through tales dreamed by a mind too fertile ever to rest, even in sleep.

 Translated by Raymond Stock



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With Naguib Mahfouz | from Gardners Books (April 30, 2013)
9789774166044 | details & prices | List price $16.25
About: In his final years, Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz distilled his storyteller's art to its most essential level.
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With Naguib Mahfouz | Reprint edition from Anchor Books (July 14, 2009)
9780307455079 | details & prices | 276 pages | 5.00 × 7.75 × 0.50 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $15.00
This edition also contains The Dreams
About: In his final years, Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz distilled his storyteller's art to its most essential level.

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