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Children of the Alley by Naguib Mahfouz
$33.50 AUD
Category: Fiction
In one of the most important novels of his long and illustrious career, Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz tells the story of a delightful Egyptian family, but also reveals a second, hidden, and daring narrative: the spiritual history of mankind. "An ambitious fable that attempts to embrace within it pag ...Show more
Echoes of an Autobiography by Naguib Mahfouz
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From the Foreword by Nadine Gordimer: "These pieces are meditations which echo that which was, has been, and is the writer Mahfouz. They are--in the words of the title of one of the prose pieces--'The Dialogue of the Late Afternoon' of his life. I don't believe any autobiography, with its inevitable imp ...Show more
MIDAQ ALLEY by MAHFOUZ NAGUIB
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Considered by many to be Mahfouz's best novel, "Midaq Alley" centers around the residents of one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo. No other novel so vividly evokes the sights and sounds of the city. The universality and timelessness of this book cannot be denied.
PALACE WALK by MAHFOUZ NAGUIB
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Cairo Trilogy
"Palace Walk "is the first novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork. The novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rule ...Show more
Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy #1) (UK) by Naguib Mahfouz
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Cairo Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
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
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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 by Naguib Mahfouz
$30.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Cairo Trilogy 3 | Reading Level: very good
Sugar Street (#3 The Cairo Trilogy) by Naguib Mahfouz (tr from Arabic William maynard Hutchins & Angele Botros Samaan)
$32.95 AUD
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 Quarter - Stories by Naguib Mahfouz
$29.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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