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Autore |
Qamḥāwī ʻIzzat |
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Titolo |
House of the wolf : an Egyptian novel / / Ezzat El Kamhawi ; translated by Nancy Roberts |
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Cairo, Egypt ; ; New York, New York : , : The American University in Cairo Press, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-61797-558-3 |
1-61797-557-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Collana |
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Soggetti |
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Villages - Egypt |
Older women |
Egypt Fiction |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Text Begins -- Glossary. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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