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The Book of Safety

The Book of Safety

ياسر عبد الحفيظ (مؤلف/مؤلفة)

Robin Moger (مترجم/مترجمة)

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نشرت الطبعة سنة 2017 باللّغة الإنجليزية
Khaled transcribes testimonies at the Palace of Confessions, a shadowy state-run agency situated in a respectable Cairo suburb. There he encounters Mustafa Ismail: a university professor turned master thief, who breaks into the homes of the great and the good and then blackmails them into silence.Mustafa has dedicated his existence to the perfection of his trade and authored The Book of Safety, the ultimate guide to successful thievery.With cool and incisive prose, Yasser Abdel Hafez follows Khaled into obsession with this mysterious book and its author.Robin Moger’s translation of The Book of Safety won the 2017 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.
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