Return of the Spirit
Tawfiq al-Hakim author William Maynard Hutchins translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:7th May '20
Should be back in stock very soon
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, 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. This is a trail-blazing political novel that illustrates the way one man's spiritual awakening ties in with the political awakening of a nation.First published in Arabic in 1933, 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. This is a trail-blazing political novel that illustrates the way one man's spiritual awakening ties in with the political awakening of a nation.
"Return of the Spirit I believe marked the true birth of the Arabic novel...[it] was a bombshell."
—Naguib Mahfouz
ISBN: 9780143133971
Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 17mm
Weight: 287g
384 pages