I Found Myself... The Last Dreams by Naguib Mahfouz Groundswell Speaker 2024

I Found Myself... The Last Dreams by Naguib Mahfouz Groundswell Speaker 2024After an assassination attempt in his twilight years, Naguib Mahfouz became a recluse, going out rarely and receiving visitors in his hotel. Cautious and in ill health, he could only roam the city freely in his dreams. In this mix of vivid vignettes linked together by the author's precisely rendered nightly wanderings through Cairo, figures from Mahfouz's personal life blend with his anxieties about Egypt's political past and future. Each dream is

untethered

is a work of lightness that goes deep to counter the forces currently flattening the modern world

a sea adventurer

and for any of us who at one time or another have found ourselves not waving but drowning

bake and prepare the house for the holiday season as you count down the twelve days til Christmas

lost to him because he had become a stranger in his own land

the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles

which will haunt him for the rest of his life

Pelé honed his skills in a poor neighbourhood in Brazil

cutting them off from the sea and sky that sustained them - that had saved Moth's life

Scholastic

Learn to write your name in hieroglyphs