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House of the wolf : an Egyptian novel / Ezzat El Kamhawi ; translated by Nancy Roberts.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Qamḥāwī, ʻIzzat, author.
- Series:
- Modern Arabic literature.
- Modern Arabic Literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Villages--Egypt--Fiction.
- Villages.
- Older women--Fiction.
- Older women.
- Egypt--Fiction.
- Egypt.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cairo, Egypt ; New York, New York : The American University in Cairo Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Winner of the 2012 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, this novel is set in an idyllic Egyptian village from the time it was discovered by Muhammad Ali's mission in the early nineteenth century to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, movingly intertwining events on the world scene with the life dramas of its protagonists. The story opens with the pivotal character, Mubarka al-Fuli, now a grandmother and matriarch, wanting to dictate a letter to God for her grandson to send to the Almighty by email. We are then ushered back in time to Mubarka's fiery adolescence and her painfully aborted romance with
- Contents:
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Text Begins
- Glossary.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.
- ISBN:
- 1-61797-558-3
- 1-61797-557-5
- OCLC:
- 1193130681
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