Naguib Mahfouz: I Found Myself...The Last Dreams, Gebunden
I Found Myself...The Last Dreams
- Fotos:
- Diana Matar
- Translation:
- Hisham Matar
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 05/2025
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780241774137
- Item number:
- 12129183
- Volume:
- 160 Pages
- Weight:
- 500 g
- Format:
- 204 x 132 mm
- Thickness:
- 25 mm
- Release date:
- 29.5.2025
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR - WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HISHAM MATAR
After an assassination attempt and in waning health, Naguib Mahfouz became more cautious in his twilight years. At the same time, in nightly dreams, his imagination began to roam his beloved city, Cairo, with a rare freedom.
In this collection of vivid vignettes linked together by the author's precisely rendered nocturnal wanderings through Cairo, figures from Mahfouz's personal life blend with his anxieties about Egypt's political past and future.
Each dream is layered with philosophical and spiritual musings, hopes and disappointments. Over the course of the book, they build to a rich and complex picture of Mahfouz's subconscious.
A master of both detailed realism and fabulous storytelling' GUARDIAN
Biography (Hisham Matar)
Hisham Matar wurde 1970 in New York City geboren; seine Eltern stammen aus Libyen. Er wuchs in Tripolis und, nach der Emigration der Familie, in Kairo auf. Seit 1986 lebt Hisham Matar in London. Hisham Matars Debüt, das in 22 Sprachen übersetzt ist, wurde für die Shortlist des Man Booker Prize 2006 und des The Guardian First Book Award nominiert. 2007 wurde Hisham Matar ausgezeichnet mit dem Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, dem Commonwealth Writers' Prize, dem Premio Vallombrosa Gregor von Rezzori, dem Premio Internazionale Flaiano und dem Arab American Book Award.
