Shawne's review
The Beginning and the End
by Naguib Mahfouz
Shawne's review
The Beginning and the End by Naguib Mahfouz
Shawne's review
rating:
bookshelves:
fiction
recommended for: Naguib Mahfouz fans, people visiting Egypt
I picked this up in a Cairo bookstore to complete the whole Egyptian experience. Relentlessly depressing - a look at one family's descent into poverty following the death of the father. Okay enough, but I must have been missing something in the translation - the language felt very textbook and colourless to me.
