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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Maḥfūẓ, Najīb, 1911-2006.
Uniform title:	Qushtumur. English. قشتمر. انكليزي
Imprint:	Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2010.
Description:	145 p. ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Modern Arabic literature Modern Arabic literature.
Subject:	Male friendship -- Egypt -- Fiction. Male friendship. Egypt -- Fiction. Egypt. Fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8438609
Related Items:	Translation of: Qushtumur.

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Varying Form of Title:	Coffee house
Other authors / contributors:	Stock, Raymond T.
ISBN:	9789774163517 9774163516
Notes:	Translation of: قشتمر.
Summary:	"On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya, five young boys become friends for life, making a nearby café, Qushtumur, their favorite gathering spot forever. One is the narrator, who, looking back in his old age on their seven decades together, makes the other four the heroes of his tale, a Proustian (and classically Mahfouzian) quest in search of lost time and the memory of a much-changed place. In a seamless stream of personal triumphs and tragedies, their lives play out against the backdrop of two world wars, the 1952 Free Officers coup, the defeat of 1967 and the redemption of 1973, the assassination of a president, and the simmering uncertainties of the transitional 1980s. But as their nation grows and their neighborhood turns from the green, villa-studded paradise of their youth to a dense urban desert of looming towers, they still find refuge in the one enduring landmark in their ever-fading world: the humble coffeehouse called Qushtumur."--Publisher description.

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Call Number:	PJ7846.A46 Q8713 2010
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