by Naguib Mahfouz · The American University in Cairo Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789774244445
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«The Journey of Ibn Fattouma» is the novel by Naguib Mahfouz, published by The American University in Cairo Press in paperback (148 pages, in English).
Ibn Fattouma leaves his land after a frustrated love in search of a perfect and just society. The journey takes him through nations with very different political and religious systems, where he suffers wars, imprisonment and family ties while asking himself questions about utopia and the human condition.
Translation from the Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies. First English edition, 1997; the original work was published in Arabic in 1983.
A read for those who enjoy classic narrative and philosophical fictions set in the Middle East.
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".
