Pyramid Texts
A Modern Arabic Novel
Published on 31. December 1999
Book
Hardback
131 pages
978-977-416-051-6 (ISBN)
Description
Weaving strands of Sufi mysticism and medieval Islamic history into ancient Egypt's most enduring symbols, "Pyramid Texts" beguiles the imagination with its masterful use of language, its haunting parables, and its glimpses of divine revelation. In a series of chapters each shorter than the last - so that they taper ultimately into nothingness - the Gamal al-Ghitani traces the obsessions that have drawn men over the centuries to the brooding presence of the pyramids.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cairo
Egypt
Dimensions
Height: 206 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
314 gr
ISBN-13
978-977-416-051-6 (9789774160516)
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Persons
Gamal al-Ghitani was born in 1945. He has written thirteen novels, including Zayni Barakat (AUC Press, 2004), and six collections of short stories. He is editor-in-chief of the literary review Akhbar al-adab. Humphrey Davies is the translator of The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany (AUC Press, 2004) and Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury, for which he was awarded the Banipal Prize for Literary Translation.