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From the Nobel Prize laureate and writer of the acclaimed Cairo Trilogy, a beguiling and artfully compact novel set in Sadat's Egypt.
"[Mahfouz] isn't just a Hugo and a Dickens, but additionally a Galsworthy, Zola and a Jules Romain."--Edward Said
The time is 1981, Anwar al-Sadat is president, and Egypt is lurching into the fashionable global. Set in contrast backdrop, The Day the chief used to be Killed relates the story of a middle-class Cairene relations. wealthy with irony and infused with political undertones, the tale is narrated alternately via the pious and mischievous relations patriarch Muhtashimi Zayed, his hapless grandson Elwan, and Elwan's headstrong and gorgeous fiancee Randa. The novel reaches its climax with the assassination of Sadat on October 6, 1981, an occasion round which the fictitious plot is skillfully woven.
The Day the chief was once Killed brings us the essence of Mahfouz's genius and is extra evidence that he has, within the phrases of the Nobel quotation, "formed an Arabic narrative paintings that applies to all mankind."
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