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Cairo Modern
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47353-0 (0-307-47353-8)
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Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47353-0 (0-307-47353-8)
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The Dreams
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-45507-9 (0-307-45507-6)
In his final years, Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz distilled his storyteller's art to its most essential level. Written with the compression and power of dreams, these poetic vignettes, originally collected in two books, The Dreams and Dreams of Departure, here combined in one volume for the first time.
These stories... Read more >
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-45507-9 (0-307-45507-6)
In his final years, Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz distilled his storyteller's art to its most essential level. Written with the compression and power of dreams, these poetic vignettes, originally collected in two books, The Dreams and Dreams of Departure, here combined in one volume for the first time.
These stories... Read more >
Morning and Evening Talk
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-45506-2 (0-307-45506-8)
This unusual epic from the Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz portrays five generations of one sprawling family against the upheavals of two centuries of modern Egyptian history.
Set in Cairo, Morning and Evening Talk traces three related families from the arrival of Napoleon to the 1980s, through short character sketches arranged in alphabetical... Read more >
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-45506-2 (0-307-45506-8)
This unusual epic from the Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz portrays five generations of one sprawling family against the upheavals of two centuries of modern Egyptian history.
Set in Cairo, Morning and Evening Talk traces three related families from the arrival of Napoleon to the 1980s, through short character sketches arranged in alphabetical... Read more >
Karnak Café
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 2, 2008
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-39045-5 (0-307-39045-4)
In this gripping and suspenseful novella from the Egyptian Nobel Prize-winner, three young friends survive interrogation by the secret police, only to find their lives poisoned by suspicion, fear, and betrayal.
At a Cairo café in the 1960s, a legendary former belly dancer lovingly presides over a boisterous family of regulars... Read more >
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 2, 2008
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-39045-5 (0-307-39045-4)
In this gripping and suspenseful novella from the Egyptian Nobel Prize-winner, three young friends survive interrogation by the secret police, only to find their lives poisoned by suspicion, fear, and betrayal.
At a Cairo café in the 1960s, a legendary former belly dancer lovingly presides over a boisterous family of regulars... Read more >
The Thief and the Dogs
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 3, 2008
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-26462-4 (0-385-26462-3)
Naguib Mahfouz's haunting novella of post-revolutionary Egypt combines a vivid pychological portrait of an anguished man with the suspense and rapid pace of a detective story.
After four years in prison, the skilled young thief Said Mahran emerges bent on revenge. He finds a world that has changed in more ways than... Read more >
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 3, 2008
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-26462-4 (0-385-26462-3)
Naguib Mahfouz's haunting novella of post-revolutionary Egypt combines a vivid pychological portrait of an anguished man with the suspense and rapid pace of a detective story.
After four years in prison, the skilled young thief Said Mahran emerges bent on revenge. He finds a world that has changed in more ways than... Read more >
Three Novels of Ancient Egypt Khufu's Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia, Thebes at War
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Translated by Raymond Stock, Anthony Calderbank and Humphrey Davies
Introduction by Nadine Gordimer
Format: Hardcover, 648 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26624-8 (0-307-26624-9)
Mahfouz reaches back thousands of years in these novels to bring us tales from his homeland's majestic early history--tales of the Egyptian nobility, and of war, star-crossed love, and the divine rule of the pharaohs. In Khufu's Wisdom, the legendary Fourth Dynasty monarch faces the prospect of the end of his... Read more >
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Translated by Raymond Stock, Anthony Calderbank and Humphrey Davies
Introduction by Nadine Gordimer
Format: Hardcover, 648 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26624-8 (0-307-26624-9)
Mahfouz reaches back thousands of years in these novels to bring us tales from his homeland's majestic early history--tales of the Egyptian nobility, and of war, star-crossed love, and the divine rule of the pharaohs. In Khufu's Wisdom, the legendary Fourth Dynasty monarch faces the prospect of the end of his... Read more >
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The Seventh Heaven
Supernatural Tales
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 5, 2006
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27714-5 (0-307-27714-3)
Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz draws on his homeland’s rich engagement with the afterlife–and his own near-death experience at the hands of a would-be assassin–in these newly translated, brilliantly mysterious stories of the supernatural.
Among those who haunt these tales are the ghosts of Akhenaten, Woodrow Wilson, and Gamal Abd al-Nasser, who... Read more >
Supernatural Tales
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 5, 2006
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27714-5 (0-307-27714-3)
Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz draws on his homeland’s rich engagement with the afterlife–and his own near-death experience at the hands of a would-be assassin–in these newly translated, brilliantly mysterious stories of the supernatural.
Among those who haunt these tales are the ghosts of Akhenaten, Woodrow Wilson, and Gamal Abd al-Nasser, who... Read more >
Thebes at War
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 18, 2005
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7669-7 (1-4000-7669-2)
Known and loved throughout Egypt as a work that celebrates the national character, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz’s Thebes at War tells of a high point in Egyptian history—ancient Egypt’s defeat of Asiatic foreigners who had dominated northern Egypt for two hundred years.
With a visit from a court official and a provocative... Read more >
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 18, 2005
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7669-7 (1-4000-7669-2)
Known and loved throughout Egypt as a work that celebrates the national character, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz’s Thebes at War tells of a high point in Egyptian history—ancient Egypt’s defeat of Asiatic foreigners who had dominated northern Egypt for two hundred years.
With a visit from a court official and a provocative... Read more >
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Khufu's Wisdom
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 9, 2005
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7667-3 (1-4000-7667-6)
At the center of Khufu’s Wisdom, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz’s majestic first novel, is the legendary Fourth Dynasty monarch Khufu (Cheops), for whom the Great Pyramid of Giza was built.
When a seer prophesies the end of Khufu’s dynasty and the ascension to the throne of Djedefra, son of the High Priest... Read more >
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 9, 2005
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7667-3 (1-4000-7667-6)
At the center of Khufu’s Wisdom, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz’s majestic first novel, is the legendary Fourth Dynasty monarch Khufu (Cheops), for whom the Great Pyramid of Giza was built.
When a seer prophesies the end of Khufu’s dynasty and the ascension to the throne of Djedefra, son of the High Priest... Read more >
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eBook.
Rhadopis of Nubia
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7668-0 (1-4000-7668-4)
Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz mines the riches of his homeland’s ancient past in Rhadopis of Nubia, an unforgettable love story set against the high politics of Egypt’s Sixth Dynasty.
While the ravishing courtesan Rhadopis is bathing, a falcon lifts one of her golden sandals and drops it into the lap of the... Read more >
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7668-0 (1-4000-7668-4)
Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz mines the riches of his homeland’s ancient past in Rhadopis of Nubia, an unforgettable love story set against the high politics of Egypt’s Sixth Dynasty.
While the ravishing courtesan Rhadopis is bathing, a falcon lifts one of her golden sandals and drops it into the lap of the... Read more >
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eBook.
Voices from the Other World
Ancient Egyptian Tales
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $11.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7666-6 (1-4000-7666-8)
Five masterly stories by the young Naguib Mahfouz, all inspired by the Egypt of the pharaohs. The forces of law and order 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... Read more >
Ancient Egyptian Tales
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $11.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7666-6 (1-4000-7666-8)
Five masterly stories by the young Naguib Mahfouz, all inspired by the Egypt of the pharaohs. The forces of law and order 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... Read more >
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eBook.
Respected Sir, Wedding Song, The Search
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 4, 2001
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-49836-4 (0-385-49836-5)
Assembled here are three novels by Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz. Diverse in style and narrative technique, together they render a rich, nuanced, and universally resonant vision of post-revolutionary Egypt.
Respected Sir, “a latter-day Bleak House in Arabic” (The New York Times), revisits a familiar theme—vaulting ambition—in a powerful religious metaphor. A petty... Read more >
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 4, 2001
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-49836-4 (0-385-49836-5)
Assembled here are three novels by Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz. Diverse in style and narrative technique, together they render a rich, nuanced, and universally resonant vision of post-revolutionary Egypt.
Respected Sir, “a latter-day Bleak House in Arabic” (The New York Times), revisits a familiar theme—vaulting ambition—in a powerful religious metaphor. A petty... Read more >
The Cairo Trilogy
Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Introduction by Edward W. Said
Format: Hardcover, 1360 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 16, 2001
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-41331-5 (0-375-41331-6)
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 Trilogy... Read more >
Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Introduction by Edward W. Said
Format: Hardcover, 1360 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 16, 2001
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-41331-5 (0-375-41331-6)
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 Trilogy... Read more >
The Beggar, The Thief and the Dogs, Autumn Quail
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 5, 2000
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-49835-7 (0-385-49835-7)
A new omnibus volume of three novels—previously published separately by Anchor—by Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Assembled here is a collection of Mahfouz’s artful meditations on the vicissitudes of post-Revolution Egypt. Diverse in style and narrative technique, together they render a rich, nuanced, and universally resonant vision... Read more >
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 5, 2000
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-49835-7 (0-385-49835-7)
A new omnibus volume of three novels—previously published separately by Anchor—by Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Assembled here is a collection of Mahfouz’s artful meditations on the vicissitudes of post-Revolution Egypt. Diverse in style and narrative technique, together they render a rich, nuanced, and universally resonant vision... Read more >
The Day the Leader Was Killed
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 6, 2000
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49922-4 (0-385-49922-1)
Mahfouz's succinct prose manages to entwine the great themes of love, death and the human condition with the tense atmosphere of Egypt in 1981. Anwar al-Sadat's open-door economic policy, Infitah, is draining the wealth of the majority and removing hope from the dreams of the young. It is also setting the stage for... Read more >
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 6, 2000
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49922-4 (0-385-49922-1)
Mahfouz's succinct prose manages to entwine the great themes of love, death and the human condition with the tense atmosphere of Egypt in 1981. Anwar al-Sadat's open-door economic policy, Infitah, is draining the wealth of the majority and removing hope from the dreams of the young. It is also setting the stage for... Read more >
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eBook.
Akhenaten
Dweller in Truth A Novel
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 4, 2000
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49909-5 (0-385-49909-4)
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 new novel, originally published in 1985 and now appearing for the first time in the United States, Mahfouz tells... Read more >
Dweller in Truth A Novel
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 4, 2000
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49909-5 (0-385-49909-4)
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 new novel, originally published in 1985 and now appearing for the first time in the United States, Mahfouz tells... Read more >
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eBook.
Echoes of an Autobiography
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 29, 1997
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-48556-2 (0-385-48556-5)
Mahfouz’s first nonfiction book published in the United States is a collection of autobiographical reflections reminiscent of such works as Pascal’s Pensées. The short and pithy passages Mahfouz presents are not simply a narration of incidents in his life, but a personal reflection on situations and events that have lodged in... Read more >
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 29, 1997
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-48556-2 (0-385-48556-5)
Mahfouz’s first nonfiction book published in the United States is a collection of autobiographical reflections reminiscent of such works as Pascal’s Pensées. The short and pithy passages Mahfouz presents are not simply a narration of incidents in his life, but a personal reflection on situations and events that have lodged in... Read more >
The Harafish
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 17, 1997
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-42335-9 (0-385-42335-7)
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988, Naguib Mahfouz is one of the foremost writers in modern Arabic literature. His books have had great success in this country, particularly The Cairo Trilogy. The Harafish is the story of the prominent al-Nagi family—a family that moves, over many generations, from... Read more >
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 17, 1997
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-42335-9 (0-385-42335-7)
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988, Naguib Mahfouz is one of the foremost writers in modern Arabic literature. His books have had great success in this country, particularly The Cairo Trilogy. The Harafish is the story of the prominent al-Nagi family—a family that moves, over many generations, from... Read more >
Children of the Alley
A Novel
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 18, 1996
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-26473-0 (0-385-26473-9)
First published in Arabic in 1959, this deeply spiritual and prophetic work comes from “the single most important writer in modern Arabic literature” (Newsweek). Through the story of a delightful Egyptian family, this novel reveals the spiritual history of humankind as the men and women of a modern Cairo neighborhood unwittingly... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 18, 1996
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-26473-0 (0-385-26473-9)
First published in Arabic in 1959, this deeply spiritual and prophetic work comes from “the single most important writer in modern Arabic literature” (Newsweek). Through the story of a delightful Egyptian family, this novel reveals the spiritual history of humankind as the men and women of a modern Cairo neighborhood unwittingly... Read more >
Arabian Nights and Days
A Novel
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 15, 1995
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-46901-2 (0-385-46901-2)
This imaginative novel by the recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature is a spirited retelling of the Arabic masterpiece Arabian Nights. Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 15, 1995
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-46901-2 (0-385-46901-2)
This imaginative novel by the recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature is a spirited retelling of the Arabic masterpiece Arabian Nights. Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar... Read more >
Adrift on the Nile
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 1, 1994
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-42333-5 (0-385-42333-0)
For the thousands of devoted readers of Naguib Mahfouz’s The Cairo Trilogy, Adrift on the Nile—first published in Arabic in 1966—will be an exciting and dramatic change of pace.
In elegant and economic prose, Mahfouz creates—out of the simplest of plots—a telling commentary on human nature. It is the late sixties, and... Read more >
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 1, 1994
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-42333-5 (0-385-42333-0)
For the thousands of devoted readers of Naguib Mahfouz’s The Cairo Trilogy, Adrift on the Nile—first published in Arabic in 1966—will be an exciting and dramatic change of pace.
In elegant and economic prose, Mahfouz creates—out of the simplest of plots—a telling commentary on human nature. It is the late sixties, and... Read more >
The Journey of Ibn Fattouma
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 1, 1993
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-42334-2 (0-385-42334-9)
In this pithy, powerful parable, the masterly Naguib Mahfouz explores life’s secrets and the mysterious maze of the human heart—a mystical and lyrical Pilgrim’s Progress, set in a mythical, timeless Middle East. Read more >
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 1, 1993
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-42334-2 (0-385-42334-9)
In this pithy, powerful parable, the masterly Naguib Mahfouz explores life’s secrets and the mysterious maze of the human heart—a mystical and lyrical Pilgrim’s Progress, set in a mythical, timeless Middle East. Read more >
Sugar Street
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 15, 1992
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-26470-9 (0-385-26470-4)
Master storyteller Naguib Mahfouz crowns his best-selling Cairo Trilogy with this final chronicle of the Abdal-Jawad clan, climaxing the story begun in Palace Walk and continued in Palace of Desire. Read more >
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 15, 1992
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-26470-9 (0-385-26470-4)
Master storyteller Naguib Mahfouz crowns his best-selling Cairo Trilogy with this final chronicle of the Abdal-Jawad clan, climaxing the story begun in Palace Walk and continued in Palace of Desire. Read more >
Miramar
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 14, 1992
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-26478-5 (0-385-26478-X)
A highly charged, tightly written tale of intersecting lives that provides us with both an engaging and powerful story as well as a vivid portrait of life in Egypt in the late 1960’s.
“With Miramar we are in the hands of a considerable novelist, and one who knows his country’s complex... Read more >
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 14, 1992
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-26478-5 (0-385-26478-X)
A highly charged, tightly written tale of intersecting lives that provides us with both an engaging and powerful story as well as a vivid portrait of life in Egypt in the late 1960’s.
“With Miramar we are in the hands of a considerable novelist, and one who knows his country’s complex... Read more >
The Time and the Place
And Other Stories
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 18, 1992
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-26472-3 (0-385-26472-0)
Selected and translated by the distinguished scholar Denys Johnson-Daivies, these stories have all the celebrated and distinctive characters and qualities found in Mahfouz’s novels: The denizens of the dark, narrow alleyways of Cairo, who struggle to survive the poverty; melancholy ruminations on death; experiments with the supernatural; and witty excursions into... Read more >
And Other Stories
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 18, 1992
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-26472-3 (0-385-26472-0)
Selected and translated by the distinguished scholar Denys Johnson-Daivies, these stories have all the celebrated and distinctive characters and qualities found in Mahfouz’s novels: The denizens of the dark, narrow alleyways of Cairo, who struggle to survive the poverty; melancholy ruminations on death; experiments with the supernatural; and witty excursions into... Read more >
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