Diary of a Country Prosecutor

Tawfik Al-Hakim (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2023
Saqi Books (Verlag)
978-0-86356-981-4 (ISBN)

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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? Partly autobiographical, this Egyptian comedy of errors takes the form of the journal of a young public prosecutor posted to a village in rural Egypt.

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.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	17.07.2023
Reihe/Serie	Saqi Bookshelf
Einführung	Richard Littler
Übersetzer	Abba Eban
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	250 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
ISBN-10	0-86356-981-1 / 0863569811
ISBN-13	978-0-86356-981-4 / 9780863569814
Zustand	Neuware