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MariaW
Khan al-Kalili | Naguib Mahfouz
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Mehso-so

I really liked the book and the plot. It is the description of a family‘s life during WWII in one of the most famous quarters of Cairo - Khan al Khalili. But I have to give it a lower rate because the translation was so-so. They translated every single Arabic word, which was too much. That‘s why the novel lost some of its flair. You can‘t translate ‘Inshallah‘ - or you do so with a footnote. What a pity.
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MariaW
Khan al-Kalili | Naguib Mahfouz
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Coming back to Germany for the summer. Since I live in the middle without a big airport nearby, it‘s quite a trip. So what do you do on the Berlin subway? Read Egyptian Nobel Prize winners! 😊
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