Naguib Mahfouz, Author, Denys Johnson-Davies, Translator, Najib Mahfuz, Author Doubleday Books $20 (148p) ISBN 978-0-385-42323-6
In this short, intermittently provocative fable, first published in Arabic in 1983, the Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author of the Cairo Trilogy ponders the question: What is the best way to organize a society? Betrayed by his sweetheart, young Ibn...
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Naguib Mahfouz, Author, Denys Johnson-Davies, Translator, Najib Mahfuz, Author Anchor Books $15 (240p) ISBN 978-0-385-46901-2
Nobel laureate Mahfouz's collection of tales inspired by A Thousand and One Nights was originally published in Arabic in 1979. (Oct.)
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Naguib Mahfouz, Author, Denys Johnson-Davies, Translator, Najib Mahfuz, Author Doubleday Books $19.5 (174p) ISBN 978-0-385-26471-6
Much more concise and pointed than his discursive novels, Nobel Prize winner Mahfouz's short stories must rank with the finest anywhere. Variety is the keynote of these 20 fluently translated tales, which range from a Kafkaesque allegory of an...
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Naguib Mahfouz, Author, Denys Johnson-Davies, Translator, Najib Mahfuz, Author Doubleday Books $22.95 (227p) ISBN 978-0-385-46888-6
First published in Arabic in 1979, these 17 interlinked, eloquent tales, loosely based on the classic Arabian Nights, reveal a more playful side of Pulitzer Prize-winning Egyptian novelist Mahfouz. Dispensing with the plot device whereby...
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Naguib Mahfouz, Author, Najib Mahfuz, Author Anchor Books $15.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-385-26468-6
In this second volume of Nobel laureate Mahfouz's Cairo trilogy, a tyrannical father discovers that his mistress has secretly married his just-divorced son. ``A masterpiece, albeit a wordy, very leisurely one, this family saga is well served by a...
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Naguib Mahfouz, Author, Najib Mahfuz, Author Doubleday Books $20 (133p) ISBN 978-0-385-26459-4
A lesser effort by Nobel laureate Mahfouz (the Cairo Trilogy), this 1964 novel is an indictment of what the author sees as the erosion of morality in post-revolution Egypt. The imprisonment and financial ruin of Basima, a prostitute, lead to her...
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Naguib Mahfouz, Author, Najib Mahfuz, Author Doubleday Books $22.5 (308p) ISBN 978-0-385-26469-3
Nobel Prize winner Mahfouz's stunning portrait of a family in dissolution (first published in 1957) mirrors an Egypt trying to plunge into the modern world but beset by colonialism, a rigid class system and political oppression. The third volume of...
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Naguib Mahfouz, Author, Najib Mahfuz, Author Doubleday Books $22.95 (422p) ISBN 978-0-385-26467-9
A sanctimonious tyrant of a father discovers that his mistress, whom he keeps on a houseboat, is secretly married to his dissolute, just-divorced son. Nobel Prize-winning novelist Mahfouz pulls off a daring plot with gleeful dramatic irony in this,...
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Naguib Mahfouz, Author, Najib Mahfuz, Author Anchor Books $16 (512p) ISBN 978-0-385-26466-2
This first volume in the 1988 Nobel Prize winner's Cairo Trilogy describes the disintegrating family life of a tyrannical, prosperous merchant, his timid wife and their rebellious children in post-WW I Egypt. ``Mahfouz is a master at building up...
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Naguib Mahfouz, Author, Najib Mahfuz, Author, William M. Hutchins, Translator Anchor Books $16 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-26470-9
Nobel laureate Mahfouz's third volume of his Cairo Trilogy, a stunning portrait of a family in dissolution, mirrors its setting--an Egypt that is adjusting to the modern world. (Jan.)
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Naguib Mahfouz, Author, Najib Mahfuz, Author, Peter Theroux, Translator Anchor Books $16 (464p) ISBN 978-0-385-26473-0
Originally published in Arabic in 1959, Mahfouz's multigenerational saga presents an allegorical look at spirituality. (Nov.)
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Naguib Mahfouz, Author, Catherine Cobham, Translator, Najib Mahfuz, Author Anchor Books $15.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-385-42335-9
From the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature comes this story of the prominent al-Nagi family, whose descendents nearly ruin its legendary name. (Apr.)
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Naguib Mahfouz, Author, Catherine Cobham, Translator, Najib Mahfuz, Author Doubleday Books $22.95 (406p) ISBN 978-0-385-42324-3
The penetrating realism that marked Nobel Prize winner Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy glimmers only faintly in this entertaining and colorful populist epic fable, first published in Arabic in 1977. Ashur, founding chief of the al-Nagi clan, is a pious cart
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Naguib Mahfouz, Author, Peter Theroux, Translator, Najib Mahfuz, Author Doubleday Books $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-42094-5
First published in Arabic in 1959, this robust multigenerational arabesque fuses trenchant social allegory and pungent realism in a skein of stories within stories. The ``children'' of Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian novelist Mahfouz's title are...
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Naguib Mahfouz, Author, Tagreid Abu-Hassabo, Translator, Najib Mahfuz, Author Anchor Books $14 (178p) ISBN 978-0-385-49909-5
Nobel-winning Egyptian novelist Mahfouz (The Cairo Trilogy) appropriates, to wonderful effect, the craft of the biographer in these 14 elegant fictional testimonies on the brief but dazzling reign of the ""heretic"" pharaoh Akhenaten and his...
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Najib Mahfuz, Author, Naguib Mahfouz, Author Doubleday Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-26455-6
A former Egyptian revolutionary and poet suffers a male midlife crisis, and the political and the personal, the universal and the particular, merge in Nobel laureate Mahfouz's perceptive 1965 tale of alienation. Here the author characteristically...
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Najib Mahfuz, Author, Naguib Mahfouz, Author Doubleday Books $19.95 (412p) ISBN 978-0-385-26457-0
With this realistic 1949 novel, previously published here in a limited edition, the Nobel laureate reveals to Western readers the woes of a petit bourgeois family thrust into poverty in WW II Cairo. The Kamels' private battles, relayed here in...
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Najib Mahfuz, Author, Naguib Mahfouz, Author Doubleday Books $16.95 (174p) ISBN 978-0-385-26463-1
A new play is the talk of Cairo. Through the script, the author, a young unknown named Abbas Karam Younis, seems to implicate himself in the death of his ailing wife and the disclosure to the police of his mother, a prostitute, and his father, a...
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Najib Mahfuz, Author, Naguib Mahfouz, Author Doubleday Books $16.95 (158p) ISBN 978-0-385-26461-7
Out of prison for less than a day, thief Said Mahran quickly resumes his old ways, and worse. Angered by his young daughter's refusal to even shake hands with the parent she has not seen in four years, and by the chilly reception from Rauf Ilwan, a...
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Najib Mahfuz, Author, Naguib Mahfouz, Author Doubleday Books $19.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-385-26479-2
With this portrait of a misanthropic civil servant, the Egyptian Nobel laureate devises a cunning send-up of egregious ambition, stodgy bureaucracy and cloying piety. Mahfouz's overblown language mirrors the grandiose aspirations of his protagonist...
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