num_pages: 135
description: Who shot Kamar al-Dawla Alwan? Was it a crime of passion? What was the role of the beautiful peasant girl Rim? Is the mysterious Sheikh Asfur as crazy as he seems?Diary of a Country Prosecutor is an Egyptian comedy of errors. Partly autobiographical, it is written as the journal of a young public prosecutor posted to a village in rural Egypt. Imbued with the ideals of a European education, he encounters a world of poverty and backwardness where an imported legal system is both alien and incomprehensible.Tawfik al-Hakim was born in Alexandria in 1898 and studied law in Paris. He worked as a public prosecutor in a provincial Egyptian town before becoming the Arab world’s leading dramatist, as well as a major short-story writer and man of letters. He died in 1987.
language: English
title: Diary of a Country Prosecutor
titlecomplete: Diary of a Country Prosecutor
characters: الشيخ عصفور, ريم, توفيق الحكيم, قمر الدولة علوان
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, Egypt, Politics, Egyptian Literature, Crime, Audiobook, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 9424
places: Egypt
publisher: Saqi Books