From Nobel laureate Mahfouz, these three magnificent novels, published in one edition for the first time, form an ancient Egyptian counterpart to his famous Cairo Trilogy. Includes "Khufu's Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia," and "Thebes at War."
Naguib Mahfouz, famed for his uncanny power to depict the real world, is equally ingenious at capturing the surreal, the otherworldly, and the supernatural. The ghostly side of Mahfouz's fiction, though less well known than his other works, nonetheless remains a haunting presence. This collection of stories sifted from his later writings brings ...
In this second collection of writing based on his own dreams serialized in a Cairo magazine before his death in 2006, Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz again displays his matchless ability to tell epic stories in uncannily terse form. As in the first volume ("The Dreams", AUC Press, 2004), we meet more of the real (and unreal) figures that ...
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