• I Found Myself by Naguib Mahfouz
  • The Divorce by César Aira
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This August, we’re thrilled to feature two exceptional books that we’re truly excited about!

I Found Myself: Last Dreams

Naquib Mahfouz translated by Hisham Matar

Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988 & his acclaimed Cairo Trilogy is beloved all over the world. I was so excited when I learned that Naguib Mahfouz’s book of dreams had been translated by Hisham Matar (whose Booker-shortlisted My Friends we showcased in our India Book Box). I found myself: Last Dreams is a wonderful book to dip into, and I loved reading Matar’s introduction to the book  – a treat!. It is releasing on July 22 and I’m thrilled to share it with you in the August Book Box.
From New Directions:
 
In his final years, the Egyptian master storyteller and Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz drew on his dreams, combining the mystery of what we experience in the night with the deep wells of his narrative art. These last dreams, stunning poetic vignettes—now brought beautifully into English for the first time by the acclaimed writer Hisham Matar—appear here with dreamlike photographs by the famous American photographer Diana Matar, which both mysteriously rhyme with Mahfouz’s nocturnal reveries and, allowing the reader a chance to dream in turn, opening up the texts. These sketches and stories are tersely haunting miniatures. Recurring female characters may embody Cairo herself, especially one much-missed lover from Mahfouz’s youth. Friends, family, rulers of Egypt, and many beautiful women all float through these affecting, brief tales dreamed by a mind too fertile ever to rest, even in slumber. A tender, personal introduction by Hisham Matar, recollecting how he and his wife met Mahfouz in Cairo not long after the assassination attempt on the author, is moving and likewise indelible.
 
Praise for the Book/Author
Elegant, often haunting evocations of a lost world at the end of life.
— Kirkus (starred review)
 A vision that aspires to a sort of all-encompassing view not unlike Dante’s in its twinning of earthly actuality with the eternal.
— Edward Said, The New York Review of Books
The Arab world’s foremost novelist.
— The New York Times
Divorce
Cesar Aira translated by Chris Andrew
and Introduction by Patti Smith
We first showcased Cesar Aira in our very first Book Box, 10 years ago, in December 2015. And with the Nobel Prize coming up in October, we thought we’d return to our old favorite with his book, Divorce, released in 2021, with a foreword by Patti Smith, who happens to be a huge Cesar Aira fan as well!
From New Directions:
 
The Divorce tells about a recently divorced man on vacation in Buenos Aires. One afternoon he encounters a series of the most magical coincidences. While sitting at an outdoor café, absorbed in conversation with a talented video artist, he sees a young man riding by on a bicycle get thoroughly drenched by a downpour of water—seemingly from rain caught the night before in the overhead awning. The video artist knows the cyclist, who knew a mad hermetic sculptor whose family used to take the Hindu God Krishna for walks in the neighborhood. As the coincidences continue to add up, the stories concerning each new connection weave reality with the absurd until they reach a final, brilliant, cataclysmic ending.
Praise for the Book/Author:
The Divorce will leave you breathless, and that is all I have left to say
— Patti Smith
We come full circle, to the ‘delicate machine’ that put everything in motion. In someone else’s hands, this might feel like a trick, but in Aira’s it is magical.
— Sheila Glaser, New York Times Book Review
This prismatic, exquisitely rendered work is from a master at the height of his powers.
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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