Tells stories of the residents of a Cairo back alley, including those of Kirsha, a cafe owner, Abbas, a barber, and Hamida, a young woman

Just released from prison, Said Mahran finds himself betrayed by the most important people in his life--forgotten by his daughter, abandoned by his wife, and rejected by his mentor

A multigenerational saga chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the al-Nagi family, from Ashur, a man of humble origins who becomes a great leader, through the decadence and decay of his descendants, to their final redemption

The first book of the Cairo Trilogy recreates turn-of-the-century Cairo, with characters who are simultaneously disciplined and sensual

Product Description: 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...read more

For Naguib Mahfouz, Cairo has always been a place of special resonance, a city he loves passionately and has revisited in his writings. Photographer Britta Le Va, a longtime admirer of the novels of Mahfouz, guides us through his pages and treads his streets to produce a collection of visual images of the city. Each complements a verbal image selected from Mahfouzs writings. In his introduction, novelist Gamal al-Ghitani describes a walking tour with the novelist through the streets of Gamaliya, the heart of the old city where both of themmore than thirty years apartwere born and raised. Mahfouz reminisces and remarks on what has changed and what has not in eight decades

A Nobel laureate's collection of five original tales inspired by the Egypt of the pharaohs brings the world of ancient Egypt face-to-face with modern times. Reprint.

As the century progresses, the head of the middle-class Cairene family finds that his absolute authority has eroded and that his children, now grown and independent, are defying and dismaying him

Product Description: Keops, en el apogeo de su poder, gobierna con mano férrea el inmenso reino de Egipto. Y como testimonio de su incomparable fuerza, ordena la construcción de un monumento funerario que asombrará al mundo, la gran pirámide. Sin embargo, la amenaza de los dioses se cierne sobre la familia real...read more

Product Description: En La batalla de Tebas Naguib Mahfuz narra una apasionante historia en la que se cruzan la humillación del oprimido, la prepotencia del invasor, la sed de venganza, el anhelo de libertad y el amor apasionado. Tras una terrible revuelta del pueblo egipcio contra el invasor, Sekenenre (legítimo emperador egipcio, pero con e...read more

Product Description: En el sensual y embriagador Egipto de la Antigü,edad, el jovencísimo faraón Mernaré II, recién instalado en el poder junto a su hermana la reina Nitocris es subyugado fatalmente por el misterio del amor. La hábil cortesana Rhadopis, de enigmática belleza, cae también en la pasión por quien es su señor pero se le entreg...read more

Los esfuerzos de Mahyub Abdudaim, joven de humilde extraccion, resentido por su pobreza, burlon, egoista y carente de valores y principios por alcanzar un estatus social europeizante en el que corre el dinero, y que tiene su emblema en los nuevos barrios, son el hilo principal de El Cairo Nuevo, novela que, situada en la decada de 1930, sirve al autor para reflejar con maestria una sociedad sacudida por los tiempos modernos en la que la ambicion intenta abrirse paso, a traves de los viejos recursos en los que laten las eternas pasiones humanas.

Product Description: A novel of loss and memory from the Egyptian Nobel laureate.On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya, five young boys become friends for life, making a nearby café, Qushtumur, their favorite gathering spot forever...read more

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From the Nobel Prize laureate and author of the acclaimed Cairo Trilogy, a beguiling and artfully compact novel set in Sadat's Egypt.The time is 1981, Anwar al-Sadat is president, and Egypt is lurching into the modern world. Set against this backdrop, The Day the Leader Was Killed relates the tale of a middle-class Cairene family. Rich with irony and infused with political undertones, the story is narrated alternately by the pious and mischievous family patriarch Muhtashimi Zayed, his hapless grandson Elwan, and Elwan's headstrong and beautiful fiancee Randa.  The novel reaches its climax with the assassination of Sadat on October 6, 1981, an event around which the fictional plot is skillfully woven. The Day the Leader Was Killed brings us the essence of Mahfouz's genius and is further proof that he has, in the words of the Nobel citation, "formed an Arabic narrative art that applies to all mankind."

Product Description: Un padre longevo se aisla en su Casa Grande tras dejar unas tierras a los descendientes que expulso un dia de su esplendido jardin. Uno de sus hijos, Idris, tienta a su hermano Adham. A partir de ahi, la simiente de ambos se multiplica dando lugar a un barrio de El Cairo dividido en dos grupos: los que se ganan el sustento y los que ejercen de caciques...read more

Product Description: At a Cairo café, a cross-section of Egyptian society, young and old, rich and poor, are drawn together by the quality of its coffee and the allure of its owner, legendary former dancer Qurunfula. When three of the young patrons disappear for prolonged periods, the older customers display varying reactions to the news...read more