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Title: Fountain and Tomb: Hakayat Haretna by Naguib Mahfouz, Soad Sobhy, James Kenneson, Max Winkler ISBN: 0-89410-581-7 Publisher: Passeggiata Press Pub. Date: December, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent book
Comment: Somehow my previous review of this book has been dropped. This was my introduction to Mahfouz; I understand why he is a Nobel Prize winner. The books uses a number of short vignettes to describe the neighbor over the lifetime of the narrator. Through these vignettes one sees the changing world of the neighbor - from governed by a thug-king to something resembling faith in Egytian government passing through the overthrow of the British rule. The changing world is also reflected in schooling, in women working, in the partial overthrow of superstition, etc. Each vignette is so perfect and the total effect of them makes this a book you should not miss.
Rating: 2
Summary: Fountian And Tumb
Comment: I thought that this book was a realy slow pase. I liked how they tied the beginning to the end and how everyone thought he was crazy. It is sad about the death that goes on durring the storie. The one thing that bugged me about this book was that you never finf out the boys name who is the one telling about the book. It is hard to write about someone when you don't know his name. oh well, it was an ok book, my class thought that it was slow too.
Rating: 5
Summary: Mahfouz paints a beautiful, mystical portrait....
Comment: When I was a freshman at the University of Richmond, Naguib Mahfouz's Fountain and Tomb was one of the books all first year English classes were required to read. I must confess, as a typical student, I had little desire to read the aforementioned text; however, from the moment I read the first paragraph, I was hooked. Rarely have I ever discovered such pure joy in prose. Each word, each sentence created so detailed a picture of a world which delighted me and, by the conclusion of the piece, I longed for more. Mahfouz has painted with words a beautiful, mystical portrait in the Fountain and Tomb and I highly recomend this book to anyone who has even the slightest passing interest in Egypt.
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Title: A River Sutra by Gita Mehta ISBN: 0679752471 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 28 June, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir ISBN: 0679724516 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 17 December, 1989 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Darwin on Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin, Thomas F. Glick, David Kohn ISBN: 0872202852 Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Selected Writings by Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon, John Locke ISBN: 0872202186 Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Plato's Phaedo by Plato, G. M. Grube ISBN: 0915144182 Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Pub. Date: December, 1980 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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