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The American University in Cairo Press
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English translation copyright © 2010 by Raymond Stock
Copyright © 1988 by Naguib Mahfouz
First published in Arabic in 1988 as Qushtumur
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ISBN 9781617973154
Cover photograph by Amr Khadr
Cover design by Andrea El-Akshar