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Palace Walk
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Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz
The first volume in Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy looks into the lives of the family of al-Sayyid Ahmad, a merchant who forces his family to follow strict religious rules while he follows his desires, sampling the alluring nightlife of the city.
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The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street
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Naguib Mahfouz, Professor Edward W Said (Introduction by), William M Hutchins (Translator)
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize--winning writer's masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain's occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century. The novels of "The Cairo ...
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Palace of Desire
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The second part of "The Cairo Trilogy" by the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. It is a true-life Egyptian family saga featuring the bullying, pompous, belching, self-adoring patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmed and his long-suffering family in domestic turmoil, with feuding in-laws.
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Sugar Street
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This is the third part of "The Cairo Trilogy", by the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. It is a true-life Egyptian family saga featuring the bullying, pompous patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmed and his long-suffering family. This book takes the family into the middle of the 20th century.
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Midaq Alley
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Naguib Mahfouz
Centred around the residents of one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo: Kirsha, the cafe-owner with a scandalous predilection for young boys, Hamida, the matchmaker's daughter, and Zaita, the cripple-maker - who maims and disfigures people who wish to become beggars.
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Children of the Alley
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Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz, Peter Theroux (Translator)
In this many-layered novel by Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, the actions of men and women in Cairo echo--unbeknownst to them--the actions of their holy ancestors. This book was first published in Arabic in 1959.
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Arabian Nights and Days
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Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz
A novel set in medieval times and incorporating corruption, social unrest and insecurity, underground religious sects bent on toppling a vile regime, and genies appearing out of bottles accidentally opened by innocent individuals. The Egyptian author won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Fountain and Tomb: Hakayat Haretna
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Naguib Mahfouz, James Kenneson (Translator), Max Winkler (Illustrator)
Mahfouz's portrait of a typical Egyptian citizen, accumulated in a series of short takes, presents him as he struggles to adapt to the changing world as the nature of the government, the position of women, and the kind of education available all undergo radical transformations.
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Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth
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Naguib Mahfouz, Tagreid Abu-Habbaro (Translator)
Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz tells the story of the "heretic" pharoah. Years after the king's death, a young man with a passion for the truth questions the pharoah's contemporaries in an effort to discover what happended in those strange, dark days at Akhenaten's court.
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The Thief and the Dogs
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Naguib Manfouz, Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz
First published in 1961, this novel by a Nobel Prize-winning author tells the story of a man who blames an unjust society for his ill fortune. He reverts to old, thieving habits, and eventually brings himself to destruction in a cruel world.
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Harafish
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Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz
Written by a Nobel Prize-winner, this is a mythic tale with a modern, soap-opera-like plot, featuring the dramatic history of the al-Nagi family. It displays the weaknesses of the human character - pride, dishonesty, lust, greed - and of the greatness we are capable of when we overcome them.
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The Journey of Ibn Fattouma
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Naguib Mahfouz, Denys Johnson-Davies (Translator), Najib Mahfuz
First published in Arabic in 1983, this brief but powerful parable is presented as the journal of a traveler known as Ibn Fattouma. A mystical, lyrical Pilgrim's Progress set in a mythical, timeless Middle East, by the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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The Dreams
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Naguib Mahfouz
In this collection of his newest and shortest short stories, the Egyptian Nobel literature laureate has reduced the fictional form to its most essential level, while retaining his justifiably famous mastery of the storytelling art. A man finds that all the streets in his neighborhood have turned into a circus - but his joy at the sight changes to ...
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Miramar
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Once again, Naguib Mahfouz has fashioned a highly charged, tightly written tale of intersecting lives that provides readers with both an engaging and powerful story as well as a vivid portrait of life in Egypt in the late 1960s. Set in Alexandria, Miramar tells the violent, tragic story of the former grand hostelry Miramar, now a pension run by an ...
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The Beginning and the End
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Naguib Mahfouz, Najeib Mahfeuz
A powerful portrayal of a middle-class family suddenly plunged into an unending financial and social nightmare by the death of their father.
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Three Novels of Ancient Egypt: Khufu's Wisdom/Rhadopis of Nubia/Thebes at War
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Naguib Mahfouz, Raymond Stock (Translator), Anthony Calderbank (Translator)
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."
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Adrift on the Nile
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Naguib Mahfouz
A novel, first published in Arabic in 1966, by the 1988 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. A group of disaffected middle-class Cairenes venture out for a drive which sets off a chain of events that destroys their easy camaraderie and exposes the frailty of human relationships.
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The Beggar, the Thief and the Dogs, Autumn Quail
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Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz
In THE BEGGAR, a former revolutionary, now a comfortable member of the bourgeoisie after the 1952 revolution in Cairo, experiences intense alienation when the change in government deprives him of any significant role. THE THIEF AND THE DOGS is the tale of a revolutionary who is released from prison only to destroy himself through his own ...
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Respected Sir, Wedding Song, the Search
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Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz
A new volume of three novels–previously published separately by Anchor–by Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Together with The Beggar, The Thief and The Dogs, and Autumn Quail (published by Anchor in December 2000), these novels represent a comprehensive collection of Mahfouz’s artful meditations on post ...
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The Day the Leader Was Killed
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Naguib Mahfouz, Malak Hashem (Translator)
Traces the life of a middle-class Cairene family living in the early 1980s under President Sadat - an era of transition in Egypt and a time of acute crisis. Age-old traditions and values were falling apart, making way for a merciless new materialism in "the kingdom of the corrupt".
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Echoes of an Autobiography
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Naguib Mahfouz, Denys Johnson-Davies (Translator), Nadine Gordimer (Foreword by)
Readers of Mahfouz's fiction will find many of the same themes that run through his fiction in this autobiography--his preoccupation with old age, death and life's transitory moments--all treated with his characteristic wry good humor. Also of special interest is a number of passages that he devotes to the aphoristic sayings of the traditional ...
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The Time and the Place and Other Stories
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Naguib Mahfouz, Denys Johnson-Davies (Introduction by)
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Voices from the Other World: Ancient Egyptian Tales
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Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz
A seductive dancer is invited by the forces of law and order to disturb a district's too-perfect peace at the dawn of Egyptian civilization. A wise and popular pharaoh is betrayed by his own son, and by his dearest friends - then makes a most peculiar decision. A mummy returns to life after 3000 years, to confront the arrogant new race that now ...
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Wedding Song
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Naguib Mahfouz, Najeib Mahfeuz
A new play opens, and is acclaimed as a commercial masterpiece. But there are those who believe that the plot, far from being make-believe, is the true story of how the playwright murdered his wife and child and betrayed his parents.
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Khan Al-Khalili
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Naguib Mahfouz, Roger Allen (Translator)
A major early novel by the Egyptian Nobel Laureate, published for the first time in English
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