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Karnak Café

by Naguib Mahfouz

ISBN13: 9780307793850
ISBN10: 0307793850
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In a gripping novella set in Cairo in the 1960s, three young students disappear amid reports of a wave of arrests, only to return months later after surviving interrogations by the secret police, and find their lives poisoned by suspicion, fear, and betrayal. Original. 12,500 first printing.

About the Author

NAGUIB MAHFOUZ was born in 1911 in Cairo and began writing at the age of seventeen. His first novel was published in 1939. Since then he has written nearly forty novel-length works and hundreds of short stories. In 1988 Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in 2006.

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ISBN:: 9780307793850
Publisher:: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Subject:: main_subject
Author:: Mahfouz, Naguib
Subject:: all_subjects
Publication Date:: 20081202
Binding:: ELECTRONIC
Language:: English
Pages:: 112

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