The seventh heaven
Subtitle: stories of the supernatural
By: Naguib Mahfouz ; translated by Raymond Stock
Contributors: Stock, Raymond T
Series: Modern Arabic literature
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cairo; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9789774249402
Work titles: Short stories.
Description: "Naguib Mahfouz, famed for his uncanny power to depict the real world, is equally ingenious at capturing the surreal, the otherworldly, and the supernatural. The ghostly side of Mahfouz's fiction, though less well known than his other works, nonetheless remains a haunting presence. This collection of stories sifted from his alter writings brings these restless spirits out of the Mahfouzian shadows together for the first time in English. A murdered man finds himself in the first level of what he mistakes for Paradise - where he faces, along with historical figures such as Akhenaten, Woodrow Wilson, and Gamal Abd al-Nasser, a strange system of earthly probation that may (or may not) got him to the fabled Seventh Heaven. A teenager is warned not to go near the allegedly haunted wood in his neighborhood, only to be drawn into the secret, enchanted life he finds within it. An honest perfume seller is accosted on a night out be angry skeletons, who threaten to march upon his alley as an avenging army if the sinners there do not change their ways. Satan speaks to us directly - to confess that there is still, despite the flood of evil in our times, an honorable man in the land."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "Dar el Kutub no. 2843/05"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxi-xxii)
Table of contents: title: The seventh heaven; title: The disturbing occurrences; title: Room no. 12; title: The garden passage; title: Forgetfulness; title: Beyond the clouds; title: The haunted wood; title: The vapor of darkness; title: A man of awesome power; title: The only man; title: The rose garden; title: The reception hall; title: A warning from afar; title: Arabic text sources