Love-who can count its varieties, measure its force, uncover the masks it wears, or predict how it binds and divides? In this spare novel, master storyteller Naguib Mahfouz gives us some of his most memorable characters, widely familiar to Egyptians from the film version of the book: Sitt Ain, with [...]

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[...]

"Palace Walk "is the first novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.
The novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, [...]

"Sugar Street "is the final novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.
The novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad,[...]

No longer the grand hostelry of past years, the pensione Miramar nonetheless caters to the whims of its five men, attented to by Mariana the Greek, an aging grande dame, and a country girl named, Zohra. Reissue. NYT.[...]

Anchor proudly presents a new omnibus volume of three novels--previously published separately by Anchor--by Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Assembled here is a collection of Mahfouz's artful meditations on the vicissitudes of post-Revolution Egypt. Diverse in style and narra[...]

From the editor of the bestselling volumes: Modern and Contemporary Monologues for Men and for Women This is a selection of forty great speeches drawn from landmark plays stretching from Greek and Roman theatre right through to those of the nineteenth century. In this wide-ranging collection Chrys S[...]

At the center of Khufu's Wisdom," "Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz's majestic first novel, is the legendary Fourth Dynasty monarch Khufu (Cheops), for whom the Great Pyramid of Giza was built. When a seer prophesies the end of Khufu's dynasty and the ascension to the throne of Djedefra, son of the Hig[...]

Features Palace Walk, Palace of desire & Sugar street,

Romanen skildrer dagliglivet i Kairos eldste bydel. Her vrimler det av menneskeskjebner: Hamida, som lokkes til prostitusjon, forføreren Faraq Ibrahim, ungdomsdyrkeren Salim Anwin og doktor Bushi, som finner gulltenner på kirkegården før han setter dem inn hos pasientene. Møtestedet er Kirshas [...]