{"product_id":"2026200015700-secondhand-wedding-song","title":"Wedding Song","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the pen of Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian master Naguib Mahfouz comes Wedding Song, a brilliantly constructed narrative that unravels the fractured lives of four individuals bound together by a single, shattering event — a crime committed on the night of a theatrical wedding performance in Cairo. Told through four distinct first-person accounts — the aging actor-manager, his troubled son, his wife, and a young actress — the novel assembles its truth the way a court might, piecing together contradictory testimonies until the full, devastating picture emerges.\n\nMahfouz, whose Cairo Trilogy cemented his status as the towering literary voice of the Arab world, brings his characteristic precision and moral gravity to this compact yet deeply resonant work. Wedding Song illustrates how subjective experience shapes — and distorts — our understanding of guilt, love, and betrayal, drawing on the theatrical world as a mirror for society's own performances and deceptions. A masterclass in narrative structure and psychological depth, it leaves the reader questioning not just what happened, but whether truth itself is ever truly knowable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203256754395,"sku":"2026200015700-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/2057310e-ad50-4efd-a046-cbac13a1ec5a.png?v=1788146572","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015700-secondhand-wedding-song","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}