Supernatural stories of ghosts, afterlife probation, and Satan in modern Cairo, blending the surreal with Egyptian social landscapes.
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Supernatural stories of ghosts, afterlife probation, and Satan in modern Cairo, blending the surreal with Egyptian social landscapes.
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Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz draws on his homeland's rich engagement with the afterlife--and his own near-death experience at the hands of a would-be assassin--in these newly translated, brilliantly mysterious stories of the supernatural.Among those who haunt these tales are the ghosts of Akhenaten, Woodrow Wilson, and Gamal Abd al-Nasser, who endure a strange system of earthly probation in the hope of gaining entry to the fabled Seventh Heaven; a teenager drawn into the secret, enchan...
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Violence & gore
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Angry skeletons accost a perfume seller
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Ghosts seek entry to Seventh Heaven; Satan appears and confesses
Magic & witchcraft
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Teen enters enchanted life in forbidden neighborhood wood
Occult / demonology
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Satan, ghosts, and afterlife probation system central to stories
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Ghosts of political figures like Wilson and Nasser appear
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