by Naguib Mahfouz · Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780385264549
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«Autumn Quail» is the novel by Naguib Mahfouz, published by Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group in paperback (172 pages, in English).
In Egypt, during the 1952 revolution and the years that followed, Isa, a senior official of the old monarchical regime removed from service after accepting bribes, embodies the dilemma between loyalty to the past and the promises of the new power. A novel about moral responsibility, alienation, and political downfall.
The novel was originally published in 1962. Naguib Mahfouz received the Nobel Prize in Literature; the English translation is by Roger Allen.
For readers interested in Egyptian literature, contemporary fiction, and historical fiction about modern Egypt.
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described him as a writer "who, through works rich in nuance – now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous – has formed an Egyptian narrative art that applies to all mankind".
