The seventh heaven

نجيب محفوظ

earliest edition we have, 1997 Alianza Editorial, 2009 hardcover 208 pages

Modern Arabic literature

Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz draws on his homeland's rich engagement with the afterlife--and his own near-death experience at the hands of a would-be assassin--in these newly translated, brilliantly mysterious stories of the supernatural.Among those who haunt these tales are the ghosts of Akhenaten, Woodrow Wilson, and Gamal Abd al-Nasser, who endure a strange system of earthly probation in the hope of gain...

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Editions we hold

The Seventh Heaven edition · 2010 · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9780307490766
El Séptimo Cielo hardcover · 2009 · Alianza Editorial · 208 pages · 9788420668710
The Seventh Heaven hardcover · 2006 · American University in Cairo Press · 156 pages · 9789774249402
The seventh heaven paperback · 2006 · Anchor Books · 164 pages · 9780307277145
The Seventh Heaven paperback · 2005 · American University in Cairo Press · 128 pages · 9789774160257
Il settimo cielo paperback · 1997 · Tullio Pironti · 233 pages · 9788879371940

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