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Title: Miramar by Naguib Mahfouz, Fatma Moussa Mahmoud, Maged El Kommos, John Rodenbeck ISBN: 0-385-26478-X Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 14 January, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An Egyptian Rashomon
Comment: Pension Miramar engages a fellaha (a young peasant woman), who ran away from her village to avoid a forced marriage.
She becomes the centre point of the attention of all the pension's inhabitants, because of her simplicity and natural beauty, but also for her ambition to get out of her traditional role of maid without education. The fellaha's battle to escape her humble fortune is mingled with her emotional love life and the more or less violent advances of some residents.
Like Kurosawa in his magisterial movie 'Rashomon' (based on a short novel by Ryunosuke Akutagawa), the evolving story is told from (here) four different angles (persons), revealing slowly the real motives behind the different clashes.
This novel contains some typical Mahfouz characters, like the career man, the wealthy playboy or the impostor ('employed by one master, serving secretly another').
Some themes are also familiar: 'If you have power, you have everything', or 'Everyone else around us behaves as if they didn't believe in God's existence'.
The novel is also a reflection on the failure of the Egyptian Revolution of 1952: 'But was there an alternative? Only the Communists or the Muslim Brotherhood.'
This is surely a worth-while read, but the book has not quite the finesse of its Japanese example.
Rating: 5
Summary: What a plot and so many twists too-----Brilliant
Comment: It was a fascinating read. The place,the time and the characters-- only mahfouz can write a book this way
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent.
Comment: No one, but Naguib Mahfouz can depict internal pain and human struggles with such elegance.
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Title: Adrift on the Nile by Najib Mahfuz, Frances Liardet, Naguib Mahfouz ISBN: 0385423330 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 February, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Day the Leader Was Killed by Naguib Mahfouz, Malak Hashem ISBN: 0385499221 Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 06 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Journey of Ibn Fattouma by Naguib Mahfouz, Denys Johnson-Davies ISBN: 0385423349 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Harafish by Naguib Mahfouz, Catherine Cobham ISBN: 0385423357 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Memory in the Flesh (Modern Arabic Writing) by Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Baria Ahmar Sreih ISBN: 9774247345 Publisher: American University in Cairo Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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