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Akhenaten - Dweller In Truth by Naguib Mahfouz
Category: Fiction
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of the Cairo Trilogy, comes Akhenaten, a fascinating work of fiction about the most infamous pharaoh of ancient Egypt. In this beguiling novel, originally published in Arabic in 1985, Mahfouz tells with extraordinary insight the story of the " ...Show more
Mahfouz Trilogy: Three Novels of Ancient Egypt by Naguib Mahfouz
Category: Classics
The books' titles are taken from actual streets in Cairo, the city of Mahfouz's childhood and youth. The trilogy follows the life of the Cairene patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad and his family across three generations, from World War I to the overthrow of King Farouk in 1952.
Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy #1) (UK) by Naguib Mahfouz
Category: Classics | Series: The\Cairo Trilogy
Volume I of the masterful Cairo Trilogy. A national best-seller in both hardcover and paperback, it introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1900s.
Palace of Desire (#2 The Cairo Trilogy) by Naguib Mahfouz
Category: Classics | Series: The Cairo Trilogy
Follows the Al Jawad family into the awakening world of the 1920's and the sometimes violent clash between Islamic ideals, personal dreams and modern realities. Having given up his vices after his son's death, ageing patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad pursues an arousing lute-player - only to find she has marrie ...Show more
Sugar Street (#3 The Cairo Trilogy) by Naguib Mahfouz (tr from Arabic William maynard Hutchins & Angele Botros Samaan)
Category: Fiction
Sugar Street, the climactic conclusion to Mafhouz's masterpiece trilogy, is the captivating portrait of a family struggling to change with the rise of modern Egypt. As Cairo shrugs off the final vestiges of colonialism, Ahmad Al Jawad has lost his power and surveys the world from a latticed balcony. Una ...Show more
The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
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 "T ...Show more
The Mirage by Naguib Mahfouz
Category: Classics
A stunning example of Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz's psychological portraiture, "The Mirage "is the story of an intense young man who has been so dominated by his mother that her death sets him dangerously adrift in a world he cannot manage alone. Kamil Ru'ba is a tortured soul wh ...Show more
The Quarter - Stories by Naguib Mahfouz
Category: Fiction
Meet the people of Cairo's Gamaliya quarter. There is Nabqa, son of Adam the waterseller who can only speak truths; the beautiful and talented Tawhida who does not age with time; Ali Zaidan, the gambler, late to love; and Boss Saqr who stashes his money above the bath. A neighbourhood of demons, dancing ...Show more
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