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008			091111s2009 ua 000 f eng d
035			_a(OCoLC)ocn465058698
040			_aUIU _cUIU _dALAUL
020			_a9789774162657 (hbk.)
020			_a977416265X (hbk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)465058698
041	1		_aeng _hara
050	1	4	_aPJ 7846 _bM214m 2009
049			_aGRAL
100	1		_aMahfouz, Najíb, _d1911-2006.
245	1	4	_aThe Mirage / _cNaguib Mahfouz ; translated by Nancy Roberts.
260			_aCairo ; _aNew York : _bAmerican University in Cairo Press, _cc2009.
300			_a385 p ; _c23 cm.
490	1		_aModern Arabic literature
546			_aTranslated from the Arabic al-Saraab.
520			_a"A psychological study of the first order with a subtly Freudian flavor, The Mirage is the autobiographical account of Kamil Ru'ba, a tortured soul who finds himself struggling unduly to cope with life's challenges. The internal torment and angst that dog him throughout his life and the tragic, ironic turns of events that overtake him as a young man are, to a great extent, the outworkings of his faulty upbringing. At the same time, they work together to drive home the novel's underlying theme: the illusory, undependable nature of the world in which we live and the call to seek, beyond the outward and the ephemeral, that which is inward and enduring. The narrative, full of pathos, draws the reader unwittingly into a vicarious experience of Kamil's agonies and ecstasies." -- Book jacket.
600	1	0	_aMahfouz, Najib, _d1911-2006 _vTranslations into English.
650		0	_aAutobiographical fiction.
650		0	_aArabic fiction _vTranslations into English.
650		4	_aLiteratura arabe
700	1		_aRoberts, Nancy N. _etrans.
830		0	_aModern Arabic literature.
942			_2lcc _cbk
966			_aRCH
994			_aC0 _bDRFGD
999			_c75392 _d75392