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Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
Written by Mohammed Hanif
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 29, 2012
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-95831-0 (0-307-95831-0)
From the author of the acclaimed A Case of Exploding Mangoes (“An insanely brilliant, satirical first novel . . . Belongs in a tradition that includes Catch-22”—The Washington Post), a subversively, often shockingly funny new novel set in steaming Karachi, about second chances, thwarted ambitions and love in the most unlikely... Read more >
Written by Mohammed Hanif
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 29, 2012
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-95831-0 (0-307-95831-0)
From the author of the acclaimed A Case of Exploding Mangoes (“An insanely brilliant, satirical first novel . . . Belongs in a tradition that includes Catch-22”—The Washington Post), a subversively, often shockingly funny new novel set in steaming Karachi, about second chances, thwarted ambitions and love in the most unlikely... Read more >
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Basti
Written by Intizar Husain
Translated by Frances W. Pritchett
Introduction by Asif Farrukhi
Format: Trade Paperback, 258 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: December 26, 2012
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-582-8 (1-59017-582-4)
Basti is the great Pakistani novel, a beautifully written, brilliantly inventive reckoning with the violent history of a country whose turbulence, ambitions, and uncertainties increasingly concern the whole world.
In Urdu, basti means any space, from the most intimate to the most universal, in which groups of people come together to... Read more >
Written by Intizar Husain
Translated by Frances W. Pritchett
Introduction by Asif Farrukhi
Format: Trade Paperback, 258 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: December 26, 2012
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-582-8 (1-59017-582-4)
Basti is the great Pakistani novel, a beautifully written, brilliantly inventive reckoning with the violent history of a country whose turbulence, ambitions, and uncertainties increasingly concern the whole world.
In Urdu, basti means any space, from the most intimate to the most universal, in which groups of people come together to... Read more >
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Night & Horses & the Desert
An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature
Edited by Robert Irwin
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 8, 2002
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72155-4 (0-385-72155-2)
Spanning the fifth century to the sixteenth, from Afghanistan to Spain, this anthology includes translated excerpts from famous works of classical Arabic literature--The Thousand and One Nights, The Qur'an, Isfahani's Book of Songs--as well as unusual pieces that are beautiful but not as well known, such as Ibn Washshiyya on the... Read more >
An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature
Edited by Robert Irwin
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 8, 2002
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72155-4 (0-385-72155-2)
Spanning the fifth century to the sixteenth, from Afghanistan to Spain, this anthology includes translated excerpts from famous works of classical Arabic literature--The Thousand and One Nights, The Qur'an, Isfahani's Book of Songs--as well as unusual pieces that are beautiful but not as well known, such as Ibn Washshiyya on the... Read more >
The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction
Written by Denys Johnson-Davies
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7976-6 (1-4000-7976-4)
This dazzling anthology features the work of seventy-nine outstanding writers from all over the Arab-speaking world, from Morocco in the west to Iraq in the east, Syria in the north to Sudan in the south.
Edited by Denys Johnson-Davies, called by Edward Said “the leading Arabic-to-English translator of our time,” this treasury... Read more >
Written by Denys Johnson-Davies
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7976-6 (1-4000-7976-4)
This dazzling anthology features the work of seventy-nine outstanding writers from all over the Arab-speaking world, from Morocco in the west to Iraq in the east, Syria in the north to Sudan in the south.
Edited by Denys Johnson-Davies, called by Edward Said “the leading Arabic-to-English translator of our time,” this treasury... Read more >
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They Burn the Thistles
Written by Yashar Kemal
Translated by Margaret E. Platon
Introduction by Bill McKibben
Format: Trade Paperback, 424 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: November 21, 2006
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-185-1 (1-59017-185-3)
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Written by Yashar Kemal
Translated by Margaret E. Platon
Introduction by Bill McKibben
Format: Trade Paperback, 424 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: November 21, 2006
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-185-1 (1-59017-185-3)
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The Attack
Written by Yasmina Khadra
Translated by John Cullen
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 25, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27570-7 (0-307-27570-1)
From the bestselling author of The Swallows of Kabul comes this timely and haunting novel that powerfully illuminates the devastating human costs of terrorism.
Dr. Amin Jaafari is an Arab-Israeli surgeon at a hospital in Tel Aviv. As an admired and respected member of his community, he has carved a space for... Read more >
Written by Yasmina Khadra
Translated by John Cullen
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 25, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27570-7 (0-307-27570-1)
From the bestselling author of The Swallows of Kabul comes this timely and haunting novel that powerfully illuminates the devastating human costs of terrorism.
Dr. Amin Jaafari is an Arab-Israeli surgeon at a hospital in Tel Aviv. As an admired and respected member of his community, he has carved a space for... Read more >
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The Sirens of Baghdad
Written by Yasmina Khadra
Translated by John Cullen
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38616-8 (0-307-38616-3)
The third novel in Yasmina Khadra's bestselling trilogy about Islamic fundamentalism has the most compelling backdrop of any of his novels: Iraq in the wake of the American invasion.
A young Iraqi student, unable to attend college because of the war, sees American soldiers leave a trail of humiliation and grief... Read more >
Written by Yasmina Khadra
Translated by John Cullen
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38616-8 (0-307-38616-3)
The third novel in Yasmina Khadra's bestselling trilogy about Islamic fundamentalism has the most compelling backdrop of any of his novels: Iraq in the wake of the American invasion.
A young Iraqi student, unable to attend college because of the war, sees American soldiers leave a trail of humiliation and grief... Read more >
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The Swallows of Kabul
Written by Yasmina Khadra
Translated by John Cullen
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 12, 2005
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3376-8 (1-4000-3376-4)
Set in Kabul under the rule of the Taliban, this extraordinary novel takes readers into the lives of two couples: Mohsen, who comes from a family of wealthy shopkeepers whom the Taliban has destroyed; Zunaira, his wife, exceedingly beautiful, who was once a brilliant teacher and is now no longer allowed... Read more >
Written by Yasmina Khadra
Translated by John Cullen
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 12, 2005
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3376-8 (1-4000-3376-4)
Set in Kabul under the rule of the Taliban, this extraordinary novel takes readers into the lives of two couples: Mohsen, who comes from a family of wealthy shopkeepers whom the Taliban has destroyed; Zunaira, his wife, exceedingly beautiful, who was once a brilliant teacher and is now no longer allowed... Read more >
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A Sky So Close
A Novel
Written by Betool Khedairi
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 14, 2002
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-72078-6 (0-385-72078-5)
In this elegant, incisive debut, a young girl comes of age while aching for a sense of belonging. Daughter of an Iraqi father and an English mother, the unnamed narrator struggles with isolation both in the traditional Iraqi countryside where she’s raised and at the Western school of music and ballet... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Betool Khedairi
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 14, 2002
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-72078-6 (0-385-72078-5)
In this elegant, incisive debut, a young girl comes of age while aching for a sense of belonging. Daughter of an Iraqi father and an English mother, the unnamed narrator struggles with isolation both in the traditional Iraqi countryside where she’s raised and at the Western school of music and ballet... Read more >
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Beaufort
Written by Ron Leshem
Translated by Evan Fallenberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Delta
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38529-8 (0-553-38529-1)
Beaufort. To the handful of Israeli soldiers occupying the ancient crusader fortress, it is a little slice of hell—a forbidding, fear-soaked enclave perched atop two acres of land in southern Lebanon, surrounded by an enemy they cannot see. And to the thirteen young men in his command, twenty-one-year-old Lieutenant Liraz “Erez”... Read more >
Written by Ron Leshem
Translated by Evan Fallenberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Delta
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38529-8 (0-553-38529-1)
Beaufort. To the handful of Israeli soldiers occupying the ancient crusader fortress, it is a little slice of hell—a forbidding, fear-soaked enclave perched atop two acres of land in southern Lebanon, surrounded by an enemy they cannot see. And to the thirteen young men in his command, twenty-one-year-old Lieutenant Liraz “Erez”... Read more >
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Adrift on the Nile
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 1, 1994
Price: $13.95
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: $13.95
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 >
Akhenaten
Dweller in Truth A Novel
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 4, 2000
Price: $14.00
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: $14.00
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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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 >
Before the Throne
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: July 3, 2012
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-74256-8 (0-307-74256-3)
Nearly sixty of Egypt’s past leaders—from the time of the Pharoahs to the twentieth century—are summoned to judgment in the Court of Osiris in the Afterlife, in this extraordinary novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Naguib Mahfouz.
Before the Throne calls forth a parade of those who have shaped the modern nation of... Read more >
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: July 3, 2012
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-74256-8 (0-307-74256-3)
Nearly sixty of Egypt’s past leaders—from the time of the Pharoahs to the twentieth century—are summoned to judgment in the Court of Osiris in the Afterlife, in this extraordinary novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Naguib Mahfouz.
Before the Throne calls forth a parade of those who have shaped the modern nation of... Read more >
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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: $17.00
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: $17.00
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 Beginning and the End
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 20, 1989
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-26458-7 (0-385-26458-5)
First published in 1956, this is a powerful portrayal of a middle-class Egyptian family confronted by material, moral, and spiritual problems during World War II. Read more >
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 20, 1989
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-26458-7 (0-385-26458-5)
First published in 1956, this is a powerful portrayal of a middle-class Egyptian family confronted by material, moral, and spiritual problems during World War II. Read more >
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)
In Naguib Mahfouz's suspenseful novel a bitter and ambitious nihilist, a beautiful and impoverished student, and a corrupt official engage in a doomed ménage à trois.
Cairo of the 1930s is a place of vast social and economic inequities. It is also a time of change, when the universities have just opened... Read more >
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)
In Naguib Mahfouz's suspenseful novel a bitter and ambitious nihilist, a beautiful and impoverished student, and a corrupt official engage in a doomed ménage à trois.
Cairo of the 1930s is a place of vast social and economic inequities. It is also a time of change, when the universities have just opened... Read more >
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The Cairo Trilogy
Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Introduction by Edward W. Said
Format: Hardcover, 1368 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, 1368 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 >
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 >
The Day the Leader Was Killed
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 6, 2000
Price: $13.95
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: $13.95
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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The Dreams
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Translated by Raymond Stock
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
Translated by Raymond Stock
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 >
Also available as an
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: $18.00
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: $18.00
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 >
The Journey of Ibn Fattouma
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 1, 1993
Price: $15.00
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: $15.00
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 >
Karnak Café
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 2, 2008
Price: $14.95
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: $14.95
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 >
