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1	Palace Walk more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.18! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Professor Edward W Said (Introduction by), William M Hutchins (Translator) add to wishlist (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 ... see all copies from $19.35! new only from $19.35! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Palace of Desire more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.25! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Sugar Street more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.60! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Midaq Alley more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.83! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Children of the Alley more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz, Peter Theroux (Translator) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.88! \| first editions
7	Arabian Nights and Days more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Fountain and Tomb: Hakayat Haretna more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, James Kenneson (Translator), Max Winkler (Illustrator) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $3.33! new only from $99.00!
9	Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Tagreid Abu-Habbaro (Translator) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.65! \| SVS
10	The Thief and the Dogs more books like this by Naguib Manfouz, Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $2.95! new only from $7.65! \| SVS
11 view cover	Harafish more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Journey of Ibn Fattouma more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Denys Johnson-Davies (Translator), Najib Mahfuz add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.26! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Dreams more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.06!
14 view cover	Miramar more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $3.17! new only from $8.52! \| first editions
15 view cover	The Beginning and the End more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najeib Mahfeuz add to wishlist A powerful portrayal of a middle-class family suddenly plunged into an unending financial and social nightmare by the death of their father. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.58! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Three Novels of Ancient Egypt: Khufu's Wisdom/Rhadopis of Nubia/Thebes at War more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Raymond Stock (Translator), Anthony Calderbank (Translator) add to wishlist 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." see all copies from $13.25! new only from $13.25! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Adrift on the Nile more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.97! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Beggar, the Thief and the Dogs, Autumn Quail more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $4.98! new only from $9.76! \| SVS
19 view cover	Respected Sir, Wedding Song, the Search more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $4.59! new only from $9.69! \| SVS
20 view cover	The Day the Leader Was Killed more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Malak Hashem (Translator) add to wishlist 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". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.92! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Echoes of an Autobiography more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Denys Johnson-Davies (Translator), Nadine Gordimer (Foreword by) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Time and the Place and Other Stories more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Denys Johnson-Davies (Introduction by) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.92! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Voices from the Other World: Ancient Egyptian Tales more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $4.80! new only from $6.75! \| SVS
24 view cover	Wedding Song more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najeib Mahfeuz add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $32.00! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Khan Al-Khalili more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Roger Allen (Translator) add to wishlist A major early novel by the Egyptian Nobel Laureate, published for the first time in English see all copies from $12.47! new only from $15.19! \| SVS

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