Traces

• Author gained international renown after publication of Zayni Barakat • , the historical novel set in Mamluk Egypt.

• Regarded as one of Egypt’s greatest modern writers.

• Literary memoir rather than linear account of Ghitani’s life

• Language is lyrical, meditative. Content on memory, regret, confession, old age, has universal appeal.

© 2020 The American University in Cairo Press (Ebook): 9781617979750

Translators: Nader K. Uthman

Release date

Ebook: 14 April 2020