I Found Myself...The Last Dreams
Naguib Mahfouz author Hisham Matar translator
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Publishing:29th May '25
£12.99
This title is due to be published on 29th May, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
After an assassination attempt in his twilight years, Naguib Mahfouz became a recluse, going out rarely and receiving visitors in his hotel. Cautious and in ill-health, he could only roam the city freely in his dreams.
In this mix of vivid vignettes linked together by the author's precisely rendered nightly wanderings through Cairo, figures from Mahfouz's personal life blend with his anxieties about Egypt's political past and future. Each dream is layered with philosophical musings, hopes and desperations, fidelities and disappointments. Over the course of the book they build to a lush and complex picture of Mahfouz' subconscious.
The Arab world's foremost novelist * New York Times *
Mahfouz's work is freshly nuanced and hauntingly lyrical * Los Angeles Times *
A towering literary figure * Economist *
A master of both detailed realism and fabulous storytelling * Guardian *
Mahfouz is a storyteller of the first order in any idiom * Vanity Fair *
Mahfouz's work is freshly nuanced and hauntingly lyrical. The Nobel Prize acknowledges the universal significance of his fiction * Los Angeles Times Book Review *
The incredible variety of Naguib Mahfouz''s writings continues to dazzle our eyes * Washington Post *
ISBN: 9780241774137
Dimensions: 204mm x 132mm x 25mm
Weight: 500g
160 pages