| Midaq Alley Contributor(s): Mahfouz, Naguib (Author) |
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ISBN: 0385264763 ISBN-13: 9780385264761 Publisher: Anchor Books OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1991 Annotation: Considered by many to be Mahfouz's best novel, "Midaq Alley centers around the residents of one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo. No other novel so vividly evokes the sights and sounds of the city. The universality and timelessness of this book cannot be denied. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Cultural Heritage - Fiction | Urban - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 91027459 |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.28" W x 8.18" (0.51 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Widely acclaimed as Naguib Mahfouz's 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 Egypt's largest city as it teeters on the brink of change. Never has Nobel Prize-winner Mahfouz's 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. |