{"product_id":"the-day-the-leader-was-killed-isbn-9780385499224","title":"The Day the Leader Was Killed","description":"From the Nobel Prize laureate and author of the acclaimed Cairo Trilogy, a beguiling and artfully compact novel set in Sadat's Egypt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe time is 1981, Anwar al-Sadat is president, and Egypt is lurching into the modern world. Set against this backdrop, \u003cb\u003eThe Day the Leader Was Killed\u003c\/b\u003e relates the tale of a middle-class Cairene family. Rich with irony and infused with political undertones, the story is narrated alternately by the pious and mischievous family patriarch Muhtashimi Zayed, his hapless grandson Elwan, and Elwan's headstrong and beautiful fiancee Randa.  The novel reaches its climax with the assassination of Sadat on October 6, 1981, an event around which the fictional plot is skillfully woven. \u003cb\u003eThe Day the Leader Was Killed\u003c\/b\u003e brings us the essence of Mahfouz's genius and is further proof that he has, in the words of the Nobel citation, \"formed an Arabic narrative art that applies to all mankind.\"\u003cp\u003ePraise for Naguib Mahfouz:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The greatest writer in one of the most widely understood languages in the world, a storyteller of the first order in any idiom.\" —\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A Dickens of the Cairo cafes.\" —\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The incredible variety of Naguib Mahfouz's writings continue to dazzle our eyes.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Naguib Mahfouz virtually invented the novel as an Arab form. He excels at fusing deep emotion and soap opera.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mahfouz's work is freshly nuanced and hauntingly lyrical. The Nobel Prize acknowledges the universal significance of his fiction.\" —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature","brand":"Anchor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303197855973,"sku":"NP9780385499224","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780385499224.jpg?v=1767738946","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-day-the-leader-was-killed-isbn-9780385499224","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}