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Description for Midaq Alley
Translator(s): Davies, Humphrey. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 674.
This much-loved Mahfouz masterpiece is a rich account of life in a back street in a poor quarter of medieval Cairo. While the novel focuses on a willful young woman whose ambition to escape the confines of the alley leads her into prostitution, a pageant of other vivid characters, from the café owner who likes boys to the man who creates maimed beggars and from the young man with the faithful heart to the rake and the pimp, fleshes out the picture of a society in crisis and transition. Though the novel is set during the Second World War, the ... Read more
This much-loved Mahfouz masterpiece is a rich account of life in a back street in a poor quarter of medieval Cairo. While the novel focuses on a willful young woman whose ambition to escape the confines of the alley leads her into prostitution, a pageant of other vivid characters, from the café owner who likes boys to the man who creates maimed beggars and from the young man with the faithful heart to the rake and the pimp, fleshes out the picture of a society in crisis and transition. Though the novel is set during the Second World War, the ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press Egypt
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Cairo, Egypt
ISBN
9789774164835
SKU
V9789774164835
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006) was born in the crowded Cairo district of Gamaliya. He wrote nearly 40 novel-length works, plus hundreds of short stories and numerous screenplays. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. Humphrey Davies is the translator of a number of Arabic novels, including The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany ( AUC Press, 2004). ... Read more
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