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Read [Naguib Mahfouz Book] ^ The Seventh Heaven: Supernatural Tales Online ! PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. The Seventh Heaven: Supernatural Tales As ingenious at capturing the surreal as he is at documenting the very real social landscape of modern Cairo, Mahfouz guides these restless spirits as they migrate from the shadowy realms of other worlds to the haunted precincts of our own.Translated by Raymond Stock. Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz draws on his homeland’s rich engagement with the afterlife–and his own near-death experience at the hands of a would-be assassin–in these newly translated, brilliantly myster
| Title | : | The Seventh Heaven: Supernatural Tales |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.73 (561 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0307277143 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-06 |
| Language | : | English |
"An Enjoyable Book of Sometimes Supernatural Tales" according to Neodoering. Here are stories of the Egyptian afterlife, and tales of philosophical musings down here on Earth, and a few pieces on the bizarre. My favorite of these stories was "Room No. 12" which is one of the bizarre pieces about a woman hosting a party in a hotel and the people she puts out by her extravagant tactics. It's an amusing piece that made me laugh, especially toward the end. Reading this collection has me thinking of Egypt and my travels there all over the country, to see ancient Egyp. Five Stars Wonderful collection of stories written by a master of his craft
His first novel was published in 1939. Naguib Mahfouz is the most prominent author of Arabic fiction today. Since then he has written nearly forty novel-length works and hundreds of short stories. He died in 2006.Raymond Stock (translator) is writing a biography of Naguib Mahfouz. Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the translator of Mahfouz’s
As ingenious at capturing the surreal as he is at documenting the very real social landscape of modern Cairo, Mahfouz guides these restless spirits as they migrate from the shadowy realms of other worlds to the haunted precincts of our own.Translated by Raymond Stock. Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz draws on his homeland’s rich engagement with the afterlife–and his own near-death experience at the hands of a would-be assassin–in these newly translated, brilliantly mysterious stories of the supernatural. Among those who haunt these tales are
“Mahfouz’s work is freshly nuanced and hauntingly lyrical.” —Los Angeles Times“A storyteller of the first order in any idiom.” —Vanity Fair
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