Magnificent Conman of Cairo Biography ISBN: 9781733023306

ISBN: 9781733023306

An essential book for our times

who must fight for her own independence with the help of the women who guide her and the books that set her free

She recounts the story of Helen Lowe-Porter's translations of Thomas Mann

served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture

Magnificent Conman of Cairo Biography ISBN: 9781733023306Title: Magnificent Conman of Cairo Author: Adel Kamel ISBN: 9789774169670 Publisher: Hoopoe Published: 2020 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: Available in English for the first time, this rediscovered classic which Naguib Mahfouz called "exceptional, tells a story of fathers and sons, scoundrels and the innocent, set in 1930s Cairo Khaled, the spoiled idle son of a pasha, meets Mallim,