The Dreams

by Naguib Mahfouz

Book Overview

In his final years, Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz distilled his storyteller's art to its most essential level. Written with the compression and power of dreams, these poetic vignettes, originally collected in two books, The Dreams and Dreams of Departure , here combined in one volume for the first time. These stories telescope epic tales into tersely haunting miniatures. A man finds his neighborhood has turned into a circus, but his joy turns...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307455076
• ISBN13: 9780307455079
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.9"