Midaq Alley

Author : Naguib Mahfouz

Paperback

Published : Sunday 1 December 1991

ISBN : 9780385264761

Price : €17.54

Description

Widely acclaimed as Naguib Mahfouzs best novel, Midaq Alley brings to life one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo in the 1940s. From Zaita the cripple-maker to Kirsha the hedonistic cafe owner, from Abbas the barber who mistakes greed for love to Hamida who sells her soul to escape the alley, from waiters and widows to politicians, pimps, and poets, the inhabitants of Midaq Alley vividly evoke Egypts largest city as it teeters on the brink of change. Never has Nobel Prize-winner Mahfouzs talent for rich and luxurious storytelling been more evident than here, in his portrait of one small street as a microcosm of the world on the threshold of modernity.

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