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Title

The last station : Naguib Mahfouz looking back / Mohamed Salmawy ; translated by Andy Smart and Nadia Fouda-Smart.

Author

Salmāwī, Muḥammad

Publication

Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, c2007.

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Additional Authors

• Smart, Andy
• Fouda-Smart, Nadia

Description

viii, 111 p. : port.; 24 cm.

Summary

"In July 2006, at the age of 94, Naguib Mahfouz, the grand old man of Egyptian novels and winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 1988, was admitted to hospital after an apparently minor fall sustained in his home in Cairo. Among the few friends allowed regular visits to Mahfouz's hospital bedside was the writer Mohamed Salmawy, former colleague at al-Ahram newspaper and, following the failed assassination attempt in 1994 when Mahfouz had lost the full use of his right hand, an assistant in recording Mahfouz's late creative output." "The Last Station, Mohamed Salmawy's intimate journal of Naguib Mahfouz's final weeks, sparkles with reminiscences of joyful times spent together and significant events from the great writer's life. Even for those less familiar with the writings of Naguib Mahfouz, it portrays the closeness of two writers from different generations and celebrates the life of an incomparable artist."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Najīb Maḥfūẓ, al-maḥaṭṭah al-akhīrah. Arabic

Alternative Title

• Najīb Maḥfūẓ, al-maḥaṭṭah al-akhīrah.
• Naguib Mahfouz looking back

Subject

• Maḥfūẓ, Najīb, 1911-2006
• Authors, Arab > Egypt > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• "First published in Arabic in 2006 as al-Mahatta al-akhira by Dar El Shorouk"--T.p. verso.

Language (note)

• Translated from Arabic.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9789774161254
• 9774161254

OCLC

• 222341574
• SCSB-11197356

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library