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The way time changes perceptions. beauty and the human spirit is what Naguib Mahfouz is all about. Depressing.
What interest me most in this book is the totally completely difference in culture (including religion / set of belief) from me, myself, and mine. In some ways, it's a little bit shocking when I am reading it through a character's perspective. I know these beliefs of certain standards in culture /...
First line - She woke at midnight.Well, it turns out that I have read this before; a L-O-N-G time ago, and obviously not very thoroughly, however pivotal plot points (PPP? haha) come as no surprise. In my previous read I must have started to become interested when the red stripe man comes into play....
Bad writing? Bad translation? Both?
This is a poignant story of the lives of a religious Muslim family in the Cairo of the British occupation in the early 20th century. It took me a few chapters to get attached to the characters, but then I was hooked and will want to read the rest of the trilogy.
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