Day the Leader was Killed

Naguib Mahfouz

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English

Anchor
06 June 2000

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Languages & ESL; Aramaic

"From the Nobel Prize laureate and author of the acclaimed Cairo Trilogy, a beguiling and artfully compact novel set in Sadat's Egypt.

The time is 1981, Anwar al-Sadat is president, and Egypt is lurching into the modern world. Set against this backdrop, The Day the Leader Was Killed relates the tale of a middle-class Cairene family. Rich with irony and infused with political undertones, the story is narrated alternately by the pious and mischievous family patriarch Muhtashimi Zayed, his hapless grandson Elwan, and Elwan's headstrong and beautiful fiancee Randa.

The novel reaches its climax with the assassination of Sadat on October 6, 1981, an event around which the fictional plot is skillfully woven. The Day the Leader Was Killed brings us the essence of Mahfouz's genius and is further proof that he has, in the words of the Nobel citation, ""formed an Arabic narrative art that applies to all mankind."""

By: Naguib Mahfouz
Imprint: Anchor
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 120g
ISBN: 9780385499224
ISBN 10: 0385499221
Pages: 102
Publication Date: 06 June 2000
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911. The author of more than thirty novels and fourteen collections of short stories, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988. He lives with his family in the Cairo suburb of Agouza.

Reviews for Day the Leader was Killed

The incredible variety of Naguib Mahfouz's writings continue[s] to dazzle our eyes. -- The Washington Post <br><br> Mahfouz's work is freshly nuanced and hauntingly lyrical. The Nobel Prize acknowledges the universal significance of his fiction. -- Los Angeles Times