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Return of the Spirit

Tawfiq al-Hakim author William Maynard Hutchins translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:7th May '20

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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