The Final Hour: A Modern Arabic Novel

The Final Hour: A Modern Arabic Novel

Hamid Burhan, a retired government employee, and his loyal wife Saniya have built themselves a home in the quiet southern suburb of Helwan, where they raise their son and two daughters, expecting life to remain as blessed as it was in the photograph of the happy family at a picnic in a Nileside park in the early 1930s. Events in the wider world impinge wars, revolution, peace with Israel while Saniya and the old house in Helwan remain the bedrock of the family's values. But everyone else is buffeted in one way or another by the tumultuous processes of change in Egyptian politics and society.

In this compact novel written in 1982, Naguib Mahfouz again uses a family saga, as he did in his Cairo Trilogy, to reflect on the processes of enormous social transformation that Egypt underwent in the space of a few generations in the twentieth century.

Country	USA
Author	Naguib Mahfouz
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9781617973130
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	The American University in Cairo Press
Manufacturer	The American University in Cairo Press
NumberOfPages	176
PublicationDate	2010-08-01
Publisher	The American University in Cairo Press
ReleaseDate	2010-08-01
Studio	The American University in Cairo Press

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