First published in Arabic in 1933, Return of the Spirit follows a patriotic young Egyptian and his extended family as they grapple with the events leading up to the 1919 Egyptian revolution. This is a trail-blazing political novel that illustrates the way one man's spiritual awakening ties in with the political awakening of a nation.
Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898-1987) is considered one of the most significant figures in twentieth-century Arabic literature and Return of the Spirit is one of Egypt's most important novels. Al-Hakim is also known as the founder of modern Egyptian drama.
Title: Return of the Spirit (Penguin Classics)
Author: al-Hakim, Tawfiq
ISBN: 9780143133971
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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date: 2020-05-07
Number of Pages: 384
Weight: 0.2951 kg
Return of the Spirit I believe marked the true birth of the Arabic novel...[it] was a bombshell.
-Naguib Mahfouz