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The Days: His Autobiography in Three Parts (Paperback)
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Short Description for The Days: His Autobiography in Three PartsThe three-part autobiography of one of Egypt's greatest writers - Taha Hussein
Full description- Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
- Published: 15 October 2010
- Format: Paperback 412 pages
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- Categories: Autobiography: General | Biography: Literary | Literary Studies: General | Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
- ISBN 13: 9789774246357 ISBN 10: 9774246357
- Sales rank: 351,726
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Full description for The Days: His Autobiography in Three Parts
For the first time, the three-part autobiography of one of modern Egypt's greatest writers and thinkers is available in a single paperback volume. The first part, An Egyptian Childhood (1929), is full of the sounds and smells of rural Egypt. It tells of Hussein's childhood and early education in a small village in Upper Egypt, as he learns not only to come to terms with his blindness but to excel in spite of it and win a place at the prestigious Azhar University in Cairo. The second part, The Stream of Days: A Student at the Azhar (1939), is an enthralling picture of student life in Egypt in the early 1900s, and the record of the growth of an unusually gifted personality. More than forty years later, Hussein published A Passage to France (1973), carrying the story on to his final attainment of a doctorate at the Sorbonne, a saga of perseverance in the face of daunting odds.
