🎯3/$10 The Day The Leader Was Killed Naguib Mahfouz Softcover Paperback Book

Softcover paperback copy of The Day The Leader Was Killed a novel written and published by Nobel Prize-winning author Naguib Mahfouz in 1983. Condition: Softcover Copy in Good Used Condition. Minimal signs of wear. The time is 1981, Anwar al-Sadat is president, and Egypt is lurching into the modern world. Set against this backdrop, The Day the Leader Was Killed 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. The novel reaches its climax with the assassination of Sadat on October 6, 1981, an event around which the fictional plot is skillfully woven. The Day the Leader Was Killed 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." Genre: Novel Bundle and save. Offers are always welcomed.