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Sto caricando le informazioni... Miramar (1967)di Naguib Mahfouz
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is a beautifully written story told from the perspective of residents of the Miramar - a pension house in 1960s Alexandria. Each resident tells of the same events but from their own perspective. The descriptions of Alexandria are vivid, and the emotions described are raw. ( ) Set in Alexandria, Egypt, in the 1960s, this book tells of the residents of Miramar, a pension run by an aging Greek woman. She hires Zohra to help with serving and cleaning. Zohra has left her family to avoid an arranged marriage to an older man. She is determined to make her own way in life. It basically involves a look at the same set of circumstances through four different perspectives. Several men try to win Zohra’s affections, but she is not interested in being a mistress, and they are not interested in marriage, especially to a person of lower status. The writing is excellent. I think I would have appreciated more of the politics if I had a deeper knowledge of Egyptian history, so I plan to read non-fiction about the region and time period. I have now read three books by Mahfouz, and this one is my favorite. Several guests of various ages, backgrounds, political views and social classes converge at a pension in Alexandria, Egypt. The aging proprietress, a couple of old men on the decline, a couple of young men on the make, and a young woman, Zohra, who works there. The younger men vie for her attention and she's the center of some controversy. Everyone appears to have their sights set on something else, all with various agendas, some legal, some not. Naguib Mahfouz seems to be portraying post-revolution Egypt through the various characters. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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This highly charged fable set in Alexandria, Egypt, in the late 1960s, centers on the guests of the Pension Miramar as they compete for the attention of the young servant Zohra. Zohra is a beautiful peasant girl who fled her family to escape an arranged marriage. She becomes the focus of jealousies and conflicts among the Miramar's residents, who include an assortment of radicals and aristocrats floundering in the wake of the Egyptian revolution. It becomes clear that the uneducated but strong-willed Zohra is the only one among them who knows what she wants. As the situation spirals toward violence and tragedy, the same sequence of events is retold from the perspective of four different residents, in the manner of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, weaving a nuanced portrait of the intricacies of post-revolutionary Egyptian life. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)892.736Literature Literature of other languages Middle Eastern languages Arabic (Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan) Arabic fiction 1945–2000Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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