Return of the Spirit

by Tawfiq Al-Hakim

Book Overview

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, Egyptian playwright and novelist Tawfiq Al-Hakim's 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. Though often...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143133977
• ISBN13: 9780143133971
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.7"