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302 pp.
Paperback
15.00 x 18.00 cm
$15.95
LE
65.00
ISBN
978 977 424 058 4
For sale only in the Middle East
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Midaq Alley
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Naguib Mahfouz
Translated by
Trevor Le Gassick
First published in English in 1974, _Midaq Alley_ is a rich account of life in a back street in a poor quarter of Cairo, focusing particularly on a young girl whose ambition to leave the cramped alley and lead an affluent life drives her to become a prostitute. Mahfouz gives us vivid images of all the pathos and joy that surround the lives of the people who make Midaq Alley their home.
Naguib Mahfouz was born in 1911 in the crowded Cairo district of Gamaliya. He wrote nearly 40 novel-length works, plus hundreds of short stories and numerous cinema plots and scenarios. He was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1988. He died in Cairo on August 30, 2006 at the age of 94.
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