The Day the Leader Was Killed


<p>AN ANCHOR PAPERBACK ORIGINAL</p> <p>From the Nobel Prize laureate and author of the acclaimed Cairo Trilogy, a beguiling and artfully compact novel set in Sadat's Egypt.</p> <p>"[Mahfouz] is not only a Hugo and a Dickens, but also a Galsworthy, Zola and a Jules Romain."—Edward Said</p> <p>The time is 1981, Anwar al-Sadat is president, and Egypt is lurching into the modern world. Set against this backdrop, <b>The Day the Leader Was Killed</b> relates the tale of a middle-class Cairene family. Rich with irony and infused with political undertones, the story is narrated alternately by the pious and mischievous family patriarch Muhtashimi Zayed, his hapless grandson Elwan, and Elwan's headstrong and beautiful fiancee Randa.&nbsp;&nbsp;The novel reaches its climax with the assassination of Sadat on October 6, 1981, an event around which the fictional plot is skillfully woven.</p> <p><b>The Day the Leader Was Killed</b> brings us the essence of Mahfouz's genius and is further proof that he has, in the words of the Nobel citation, "formed an Arabic narrative art that applies to all mankind."</p>

Author(s): Naguib Mahfouz  

ISBN 10: 0385499221
ISBN 13: 9780385499224
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Publication: June 2000
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