Effendina: The Story of the Young King Farouk of Egypt, 1920-1943 - Hardcover

Toussoun, Melekper

 
9781914325113: Effendina: The Story of the Young King Farouk of Egypt, 1920-1943
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1914325117 ISBN 13: 9781914325113
Verlag: Nomad Publishing, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

King Farouk came to the throne in 1936, at the tender age of 16. The young monarch's rule was to the be the last in a dynasty that had run this ancient land since 1805. Melekper Toussoun's account is a history told from the inside, as someone who was part of that final dynasty which held the helm until the monarchy was toppled in a coup d'é tat in 1952 - a coup d' é tat that would probably not have taken place had the young king not suffered an accident that affected the neuronal pathways in his brain. This evocative and highly personal narrative tells the story of the young monarch, and pivots on one central event that was to change everything - Farouk's car accident on a country road in 1943, in which he sustained an injury which, without damaging his intellectual faculties, changed instantly and permanently his behaviour and personality. Melekper Toussoun evocatively conveys the stresses and strains the king was under through those tortured years, and highlights the gulf between his behaviour before and after the accident where 'Farouk was no longer Farouk.'

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Melekper Toussoun spent her early childhood in Cairo and at 14 spent a year with her aunt in Washington DC. She went on to join her mother, step-father and younger brother in Rio de Janeiro. She moved to Paris at 21, became a French citizen and has lived ever since. After a period working in the hotel business she became a trilingual interpreter (French-English-Portuguese) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Verlag
Nomad Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1914325117
ISBN 13 
9781914325113
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Anzahl der Seiten
236
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