Arabian Nights and Days

The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories from the tradition of The One Thousand and One Nights, made new by the magical pen of the acknowledged dean of Arabic letters, who plumbs their depths for timeless truths.

Author: Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 09/15/1995
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.28w x 0.52d
ISBN13: 9780385469012
ISBN10: 0385469012
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Literary Criticism | African
- Fiction | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology

About the Author

Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. His nearly forty novels and hundreds of short stories range from re-imaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. Of his many works, most famous is The Cairo Trilogy, consisting of Palace Walk (1956), Palace of Desire (1957), and Sugar Street (1957), which focuses on a Cairo family through three generations, from 1917 until 1952. In 1988, he was the first writer in Arabic to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in August 2006.