In the time of love

Resource Information

The work In the time of love represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

In the time of love

Creator

• Maḥfūẓ, Najīb, 1911-2006

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Subject

• Egypt -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
• Electronic books
• Mothers -- Egypt -- Fiction
• Mothers and sons -- Egypt -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Love who can count its varieties, measure its force, uncover the masks it wears, or predict how it binds and divides? In this spare novel, master storyteller Naguib Mahfouz gives us some of his most memorable characters, widely familiar to Egyptians from the film version of the book: Sitt Ain, with her large house, her garden, her cats, and her familiar umbrella, strong and active, mother of the neighborhood; her son Izzat, so different from her, emotional and unsure of his way; and the friends of his childhood, Sayyida, Hamdoun, and Badriya, all their lives entangled and shaped over many years by the encounter of commitment, ambition, treachery, and above all love. This is a story in and of twentieth-century Egypt, which can be read on more than one level. The neighborhood and the motifs may be familiar, but they combine to tell a new and intriguing tale, with an unexpected outcome

Member of

• ʻAṣr al-ḥubb

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

892.736

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Modern Arabic literature

Target audience

adult