Wedding Song by Naguib Mahfouz

Title: Wedding Song
Author: Naguib Mahfouz
Read By: Robert Blumenfeld
Copyright: 1984
Audiobook Copyright: 2009
Genre: Fiction

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Book Description
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From Publishers Weekly
A new play is the talk of Cairo. Through the script, the author, a young
unknown named Abbas Karam Younis, seems to implicate himself in the
death of his ailing wife and the disclosure to the police of his mother,
a prostitute, and his father, a gambler. Then Abbas mysteriously vanishes,
leaving behind a suicide note but no corpse. Previously published here
in a limited edition, this 1981 novel by the Egyptian Nobel laureate
adopts the Faulkneresque device of employing a different character to
narrate each chapter. All four accounts are marked by a deft blend of
everyday details of Cairo life and compelling, stream-of-consciousness
monologues. "Abbas could never betray his mother," she muses at one
point. "He may have scorned everything else, but not my love. Love is
stronger than evil itself." Throughout, Mahfouz probes the nature of
art: what is real, what is fantasy. "A play is just a play. Nothing
more," one character says. "Otherwise, the law would have the right
to put ninety percent of our authors in the prisoner's dock." This transcendent
book is evidence of how well Mahfouz's penetrating stories travel across
cultural borders.