Book of Epiphanies An Egyptian Novel

Name: Book of Epiphanies An Egyptian Novel
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ISBN: 9789774165467

ISBN-10: 9774165462

ISBN-13: 9789774165467

Edition: 2012

Authors: Gamal al-Ghitani, Farouk Abdel Wahab

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In this surrealist novel with political and religious aspects and an edge of satire, the narrator is an unseen, unheard presence with the privilege of observing events from the past, mostly those involving his father and grandfather. Inanimate objects that have "witnessed" events (such as a date palm, or a brick in a hospital wall) report to the narrator, who seems to know no temporal or physical boundaries.A sense of displaced time saturates the blending of real and unreal events, such as the fight in the desert around Karbala against Israel and the forces of the West (including William Casey (the former CIA director), the narrator's father, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and al-Husayn). Nasser, who…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Publication date: 9/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Gamal al-Ghitani was born in 1945 and is the author of the Mahfouz Dialogues (2007), Zayni Barakat (Penguin, 1988) Pyramid Texts (AUC, 2007) and The Zafarani Files (Arabia Books, 2009). He is the Editor in Chief of the Cairo Literary Review and his novels have been translated into many languages.