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Karnak Café (Al-Karnak, Arabic: الكرنك) is a novella written in 1974 by Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988. The novel was made into a film of the same name in 1975.
Naghib Mahfouz's novella, Karnak Café, is gem-like in its density, clarity, and ability to transform the ordinary light of day into glittering reflections that startle and bewitch the observer/reader.
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- Naguib Mahfouz
Naghib Mahfouz's novella, Karnak Café, is gem-like in its density, clarity, and ability to transform the ordinary light of day into glittering reflections that startle and bewitch the observer/reader.
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- Naguib Mahfouz
Jan 1, 1974 · Exposing the dark underbelly of ideology, and delving into the idea of the ‘necessary evils’ of social upheaval, Karnak Café remains one of the Nobel laureate’s most pointedly critical works, as relevant and incisive today as it was when it was first published in 1974.
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May 4, 2011 · At a Cairo café in the 1960s, a legendary former belly dancer lovingly presides over a boisterous family of regulars, including a group of idealistic university students. One day, amid reports of...
- Naguib Mahfouz
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011
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- Karnak Cafe
In this gripping and suspenseful novella from the Egyptian Nobel Prize-winner, three young friends survive interrogation by the secret police, only to find their lives poisoned by suspicion, fear, and betrayal.
Exposing the dark underbelly of ideology, and delving into the idea of the 'necessary evils' of social upheaval, Karnak Café remains one of the Nobel laureate's most pointedly...
