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A carregar... The Coffeehouse (Modern Arabic Literature) (1989)por Naguib Mahfouz
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This 135-page novella manages to pack in most of Egypt's 20th century history as well as what feels like a lot of detail about the lives of the four main characters, from primary school to old age. They — and the elusive narrator, who doesn't tell us anything at all about himself — have been meeting regularly throughout that time in the Qushtumur coffee-house in the middle-class Cairo suburb of Abbasiya. Over the coffee, water-pipes and dominos they exchange gossip, discuss poems, books, politics and women, and offer each other advice, sympathy, mockery or ribaldry, as the case may be. It's a book with a relaxed, even tone, distancing itself a little from the dramas of life, but it's clearly also a kind of affectionate farewell to the (male) middle-class Cairo world in which Mahfouz spent most of his life, written from the perspective of old age. Very enjoyable. ( ) sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya, five young boys become friends for life, making a nearby café, Qushtumur, their favorite gathering spot forever. One is the narrator, who, looking back in his old age on their seven decades together, makes the other four the heroes of his tale, a Proustian (and classically Mahfouzian) quest in search of lost time and the memory of a much-changed place. In a seamless stream of personal triumphs and tragedies, their lives play out against the backdrop of two world wars, the 1952 Free Officers coup, the defeat of 1967 and the redemption of 1973, the assassination of a president, and the simmering uncertainties of the transitional 1980s. But as their nation grows and their neighborhood turns from the green, villa-studded paradise of their youth to a dense urban desert of looming towers, they still find refuge in the one enduring landmark in their ever-fading world: the humble coffeehouse called Qushtumur. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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