Return of The Spirit
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Return of The Spirit
$18.00
Book details
- Author
- Hakim, Tawfiq
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, USA
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- English
- Format
- Softcover
- Pages
- 341 pp
- Dimensions
- 14 x 20 cm
- Age group
- Adult
- ISBN-13
- 9780143133971
- Topic
- Fiction - Egypt
- Item #
- 71928
ABOUT RETURN OF THE SPIRIT
The celebrated, revolutionary novel from a pioneering Egyptian writer Tawfiq al-Hakim, now for the first time in Penguin Classics with a foreword by Egyptian writer Alaa Al-Aswany
First published in Arabic in 1933, Egyptian playwright and novelist Tawfiq Al-Hakim’s Return of the Spirit follows a patriotic young Egyptian and his extended family as they grapple with the events leading up to the 1919 Egyptian revolution against British rule.
PRAISE
“Return of the Spirit I believe marked the true birth of the Arabic novel…[it] was a bombshell.”
—Naguib Mahfouz
Tawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim (October 9, 1898 – July 26, 1987) (Arabic: توفيق الحكيم Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm) was a prominent Egyptian writer and visionary. He is one of the pioneers of the Arabic novel and drama. Wikipedia
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