Diary of a Country Prosecutor - Softcover

Al-Hakim, Tawfik

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0863565492 ISBN 13: 9780863565496

Publisher: Saqi Books, 2005

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

'touching and yet savagely funny.' The Bookseller 'a satirical tale of country life under a repressive and far-away Cairo legal system.' Literary Review 'a book to be read and enjoyed ... a classic of translation.' World Literature Today

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Saqi Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0863565492
• ISBN 13: 9780863565496
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 135