Madison County Bridges

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A captivating and simple love story, set in a small American town... a story that stays with you long after you finish reading the last page, leaving you with a pang of regret at parting ways. - Terence Stamp

If you have ever experienced a single true love in your life that, for some reason, did not work out, you will understand the impact this short novel, the first by its author, had on readers all over the world, turning into a phenomenon in the publishing world and number one on the best-selling lists.

The story of Robert Kincaid, the free-spirited photographer searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, the rural wife waiting for a childhood dream to come true, gives a voice to the longings of men and women everywhere in the novel "The Bridges of Madison County," and shows us what it means to love and to love so intensely that life is never the same again.

The novel is one of the best-selling books of the 20th century, with estimated worldwide sales of around 60 million copies. It has been translated into more than 25 languages, adapted into a feature film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood alongside Meryl Streep, and later adapted into a musical and a stage play.

About the author
Robert James Waller was born in 1939 in Rockford, Iowa. Besides being a bestselling author, he was also a photographer and musician. Waller served as Dean of the College of Business Administration at Southern Iowa University until 1989 and died in 2017.

About the translator
Mohamed Abdel Nabi, an Egyptian writer and translator, was born in Dakahlia Governorate in 1977, and obtained a Bachelor of Languages ​​and Translation (English Department) from Al-Azhar University.
He has authored numerous works, including short stories and novels, and has won the Sawiris Literary Award multiple times. His most recent works include the collection "Once Upon a Time" and the novel "In the Spider's Room," which won several awards and was shortlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize in 2017. Its French translation also won the Arab World Institute Prize in Paris in 2019.
He translated many important titles, both literary and non-literary, including two novels by Hisham Matar, "Timbuktu" by Paul Auster, "The Light of War" by Michael Ondaatje, and "Status Anxiety" by Alain de Botton. His translations of "A Million Windows" by Gerald Mernin and "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" by Richard Bach were published by Dar Al Karma.