Who shot Kamar al-Dawla Alwan? Was it a crime of passion? What was the role of the beautiful peasant girl Rim? Is the mysterious Sheikh Asfur as crazy as he seems? Diary of a Country Prosecutor is an Egyptian comedy of errors. Partly autobiographical, it takes the form of a journal of a young public prosecutor posted to a village in rural Egypt. Imbued with the ideals of a European education, he encounters a world of poverty and backwardness where an imported legal system is both alien and incomprehensible.
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'Touching and yet savagely funny.' The Bookseller
'A satirical tale of country life under a repressive and far-away Cairo legal system.' Literary Review
'A book to be read and enjoyed .. a classic of translation.' World Literature Today
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Höhe: 195 mm
Breite: 126 mm
Dicke: 17 mm
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978-0-86356-981-4 (9780863569814)
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Tawfik al-Hakim was born in Alexandria in 1898 and studied law in Paris. He worked as a public prosecutor in a provincial Egyptian town before becoming the Arab world's leading dramatist as well as a major short-story writer and man of letters. He died in 1987.
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