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The Thief and the Dogs (Paperback)
$12.35 - Save $0.66 (5%) - RRP $13.01 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Thief and the DogsFirst published in 1961, this novel by a Nobel Prize-winning author tells the story of a man who blames an unjust society for his ill fortune. He reverts to old, thieving habits, and eventually brings himself to destruction in a cruel world.
Full description- Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
- Published: 31 December 1989
- Format: Paperback 158 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780385264624 ISBN 10: 0385264623
- Sales rank: 258,068
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Full description for The Thief and the Dogs
Naguib Mahfouz's haunting novella of post-revolutionary Egypt combines a vivid pychological portrait of an anguished man with the suspense and rapid pace of a detective story. After four years in prison, the skilled young thief Said Mahran emerges bent on revenge. He finds a world that has changed in more ways than one. Egypt has undergone a revolution and, on a more personal level, his beloved wife and his trusted henchman, who conspired to betray him to the police, are now married to each other and are keeping his six-year-old daughter from him. But in the most bitter betrayal, his mentor, Rauf Ilwan, once a firebrand revolutionary who convinced Said that stealing from the rich in a unjust society is an act of justice, is now himself a rich man, a respected newspaper editor who wants nothing to do with the disgraced Said. As Said's wild attempts to achieve his idea of justice badly misfire, he becomes a hunted man so driven by hatred that he can only recognize too late his last chance at redemption.
