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Diary of a Country Prosecutor is an Egyptian comedy of errors. Partly autobiographical, it is written as the 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.
‘Touching and yet
savagely funny.’ Bookseller
Praise for the author:
‘The model of a twentieth-century Arab public intellectual … he led the literary renaissance that self-consciously sought to give shape to the social and political awakening following the 1919 Egyptian uprising against British rule.’ Times Literary Supplement