# The Day the Leader Was Killed

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- Book: [The Day the Leader Was Killed](https://www.bookquiver.com/naguib-mahfouz/the-day-the-leader-was-killed) ([The Day the Leader Was Killed.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/naguib-mahfouz/the-day-the-leader-was-killed.md))
- Authors: [Naguib Mahfouz](https://www.bookquiver.com/naguib-mahfouz)
- Publisher: anchor
- ISBN: 978-03-8549-922-4
- Pages: 112
- Published: 2000-06-06
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

From the Nobel Prize laureate and author of the acclaimed Cairo Trilogy, a beguiling and artfully compact novel set in Sadat's Egypt. The time is 1981, Anwar al-Sadat is president, and Egypt is lurching...