Diary of a Country Prosecutor

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ISBN-10: 0863569811
ISBN-13: 9780863569814
Publisher: Saqi Books
Publish Date: 10/24/2023
Dimensions: 7.70" L, 5.00" W, 0.70" H

Diary of a Country Prosecutor

byTawfik Al-Hakim
Translator: Abba Eban
Foreword by: P H Newby

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Price: $14.95

Overview

Who shot Kamar al-Dawla Alwan? Was it a crime of passion? What was the role of the beautiful peasant girl Rim? Is the mysterious Sheikh Asfur as crazy as he seems?

Diary of a Country Prosecutor is an Egyptian comedy of errors. Partly autobiographical, it is written as the journal of a young public prosecutor posted to a village in rural Egypt. Imbued with the ideals of a European education, he encounters a world of poverty and backwardness where an imported legal system is both alien and incomprehensible.

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Reviews
'A satirical tale
of country life under a repressive and faraway Cairo legal system.' Literary
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'Touching and yet
savagely funny.' Bookseller

Praise for the author:

'The model of a twentieth-century Arab public
intellectual ... he led the literary renaissance that self-consciously sought to
give shape to the social and political awakening following the 1919 Egyptian
uprising against British rule.' Times Literary Supplement

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Details

ISBN-10: 0863569811
ISBN-13: 9780863569814
Publisher: Saqi Books
Publish Date: 10/24/2023
Dimensions: 7.70" L, 5.00" W, 0.70" H
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