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First published in Arabic in 1983, this brief but powerful parable is presented as the journal of a traveler known as Ibn Fattouma. A mystical, lyrical Pilgrims Progress set in a mythical, timeless Middle East, by the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. nIn this provocative and dreamy parable, a young man disillusioned by the corruption of his homeland sets out on a quest to find Gebel, the land of perfection, from which no one has ever returned. On his way, Ibn Fattouma passes through a series of very different lands--realms where the moon is worshipped, where marriage does not exist, where kings are treated like gods, and where freedom, toleration, and justice are alternately held as the highest goods. All of these places, however, are inevitably marred by the specter of war, and Ibn Fattouma finds himself continually driven onward, ever seeking. Like the protagonists of A Pilgrims Progress and Gullivers Travels, Naguib Mahfouzs hero travels not through any recognizable historical landscape, but through timeless aspects of human possibility.
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Brand: Naguib Mahfouz
