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In Egypt, a Muslim on the run from a family feud seeks refuge in a Christian monastery. The novel traces the abrasive relationship between him and the monks. A clash of cultures.
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In Egypt, a Muslim on the run from a family feud seeks refuge in a Christian monastery. The novel traces the abrasive relationship between him and the monks. A clash of cultures.
Publisher:
University of California Press, Berkeley
Born in Cairo in 1935, Bahaa Taher began publishing fiction in 1964. He has to his credit several collections of short stories and three novels, of which Aunt Safiyya and the Monastery, published in Egypt in 1991, is the third. Raised and educated in...
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Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt / Zentrale
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Born in Cairo in 1935, Bahaa Taher began publishing fiction in 1964. He has to his credit several collections of short stories and three novels, of which Aunt Safiyya and the Monastery, published in Egypt in 1991, is the third. Raised and educated in the city of his birth, Taher nevertheless feels a strong connection with the geographical setting of this novel: the region of Luxor, where his parents came from. In his introduction to the original work, the author pays tribute to his mother, a gifted storyteller whom he credits with inspiring his own narrative talents. Taher himself is both a first-rate storyteller and a shrewd observer of the world in which he lives, revealing through his fiction a great deal about a broad range of Egyptian experience
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