I Found Myself...The Last Dreams

'A master of both detailed realism and fabulous storytelling’ GUARDIAN

FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR – WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HISHAM MATAR

After an assassination attempt and in waning health, Naguib Mahfouz became more cautious in his twilight years. At the same time, in nightly dreams, his imagination began to roam his beloved city, Cairo, with a rare freedom.

In this collection of vivid vignettes linked together by the author’s precisely rendered nocturnal wanderings through Cairo, figures from Mahfouz’s personal life blend with his anxieties about Egypt’s political past and future.

Each dream is layered with philosophical and spiritual musings, hopes and disappointments. Over the course of the book, they build to a rich and complex picture of Mahfouz’s subconscious.

'The Arab world's foremost novelist' NEW YORK TIMES

'Freshly nuanced and hauntingly lyrical' LOS ANGELES TIMES

'A towering literary figure' ECONOMIST

Contributor: Hisham Matar (Translated by), Diana Matar (Photographs by), Hisham Matar (Introduction by)

Translator: Hisham Matar

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