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_beng
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041 1 _aeng
_hara
050 0 0 _aPJ7846.A46
_bA213 2012
100 1 _aMaḥfūẓ, Najīb,
_dd 1911-2006.
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240 1 0 _aSarāb.
_lEnglish
245 1 4 _aThe mirage :
_ba novel /
_cNaguib Mahfouz ; translated from the Arabic by Nancy Roberts.
250 _a1st Anchor Books ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bAnchor Books,
_cc 2012, c 2009.
300 _a473 p. ;
_c21 cm.
500 _a Translation of: Al-Sarāb.
520 _aA stunning example of Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz's psychological portraiture, The Mirage is the story of an intense young man who has been so dominated by his mother that her death sets him dangerously adrift in a world he cannot manage alone. Kamil Ru'ba is a tortured soul who hopes that writing the story of his life will help him gain control of it. Raised by a mother who fled her abusive husband and became overbearingly possessive and protective toward her young son, he has long been isolated emotionally and physically. Now in his twenties, Kamil seeks to escape her posthumous grasp. Finding and successfully courting the woman of his dreams seems to promise salvation, until his ignorance of mature love and his fear and jealousy lead to tragedy.
650 0 _aMothers and sons
_vFiction.
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650 0 _aMothers
_vFiction.
_xDeath
_9711
655 0 _aPsychological fiction.
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700 1 _aRoberts, Nancy N.
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_cBK
999 _c215
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