Return of the Spirit

Tawfiq al-Hakim; Russell Harris (Translator); Alaa Al Aswany (Foreword by); William M. Hutchins (Introduction by); William Maynard Hutchins (Translator, Introduction by)

First published in Arabic in 1933, Egyptian playwright and novelist Tawfiq Al-Hakim's Return of the Spirit follows a patriotic young Egyptian and his extended family as they grapple with the events leading up to the 1919 Egyptian revolution. Though often cited as an apprenticeship novel in the vein of J...