The Seventh Heaven: Supernatural TalesEgyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz draws on his homelands rich engagement with the afterlifeand his own near death experience at the hands of a would be assassinin these newly translated, brilliantly mysterious stories of the supernatural. Among those who haunt these tales are the ghosts of Akhenaten, Woodrow Wilson, and Gamal Abd al Nasser, who endure a strange system of earthly probation in the hope of gaining entry to the fabled Seventh Heaven;