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Diary of a Country Prosecutor

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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 a...
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  • 24 October 2023
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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 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.

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Price: $14.95
Pages: 176
Publisher: Saqi Books
Imprint: Saqi Books
Series: Saqi Bookshelf
Publication Date: 24 October 2023
Trim Size: 8.25 X 5.30 in
ISBN: 9780863569814
Format: Paperback
BISACs: FICTION / World Literature / Middle East / Egypt & North Africa, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Humorous fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary
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‘A satirical tale of country life under a repressive and faraway Cairo legal system.’ Literary Review


‘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