The Day the Leader Was Killed

Name: The Day the Leader Was Killed
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)
Author: Naguib Mahfouz

Auteur: Naguib Mahfouz

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Naguib Mahfouz Najib Mahfuz

Co-auteur: Najoib Mahfouz

Engels
Paperback
9780385499224
06 juni 2000
102 pagina's

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Set in Anwar al-Sadat's Egypt, this novel relates the tale of a middle-class Cairene family, narrated alternately by the pious and mischievous family patriarch Muhtashimi Zayed, his hapless grandson, Elwan, and Elwan's headstrong and beautiful fiancee, Randa, culmiating with the assassination of Sadat on October 6, 1981, an event around which the fictional plot is woven. Reprint.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 06 juni 2000
Aantal pagina's: 102
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Naguib Mahfouz
Tweede Auteur: Najib Mahfuz
Co Auteur: Najoib Mahfouz
Hoofduitgeverij: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 133 mm
Product hoogte: 13 mm
Product lengte: 197 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 55 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 11 mm
Verpakking lengte: 199 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 100 g

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EAN: 9780385499224

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- pdoornb
- 27 november 2015
Powerful 1985 novella with brief chapters about a love tragedy in Cairo, Egypt, with significant political and religious undercurrents. It all ends in September 1981, the country groaning under the effects of years of economic liberalization and a retreating state. The already privileged, the well-connected and the ruthless grow fabulously rich, many millions on fixed salaries lose out despite working second jobs. They fail to keep up with inflation. The novella is primarily about Elwan and Randa, who grew up together with their families’ apartments one on top of the other. They have been in love and engaged for 11 years, even share the same employer. Now that they are both 26, they cannot afford to marry. They have only kissed.
Their sad predicament affects everyone in their close circle of family and colleagues, incl. Elwan’s grandfather, who is fond of him and tries to lift his spirits with wisdoms drawn from the Book. The now devout octogenarian—living in with his son & his wife and grandson, passing his remaining days watching soaps on TV and reading the Book—is also keenly aware that Elwan and his parents live harsher lives in less hopeful times than he himself: when young, there was little opprobrium to fulfilling one’s natural desires, letting go, partying, drinking, consorting with generous prostitutes (all sins to be atoned for in later life). It was also easier to find affordable housing and marry young. Grandfather is a Sufi Muslim and would love to be able to perform miracles for Elwan and everyone like him. Aware of his spiritual limits, he increasingly welcomes meeting the angel the Almighty sends to collect His every creation’s soul.
One character pronounces solemnly that Egypt in 1981 truly hit rock bottom, it cannot get any worse. What a prophecy! During a recently-decreed National Holiday, live on TV, Elwan’s frustration and fury finally explode. Simultaneously, nation-wide, TV-screens go dark.

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