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    Children of the Alley

    A Novel

    Author Naguib Mahfouz
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    Knopf | Anchor
    On sale Oct 18, 1996 | 464 Pages | 9780385264730
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    Winner of the Nobel Prize 

    First published in Arabic in 1959, this deeply spiritual and prophetic work comes from “the single most important writer in modern Arabic literature” (Newsweek). Through the story of a delightful Egyptian family, this novel reveals the spiritual history of humankind as the men and women of a modern Cairo neighborhood unwittingly reenact the lives of their holy ancestors.

    Translated by Peter Theroux.
    • WINNER | 1988
      Nobel Prize
    Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. His nearly forty novels and hundreds of short stories range from re-imaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. Of his many works, the most famous is the Cairo Trilogy, consisting of Palace Walk (1956), Palace of Desire (1957), and Sugar Street (1957), which focuses on a Cairo family through three generations, from 1917 until 1952. In 1988, he was the first writer in Arabic to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in August 2006.  View titles by Naguib Mahfouz

    "Immensely entertaining and deeply serious." --Chicago Tribune

    "An ambitious fable that attempts to embrace within its pages not merely the world of the Middle East but that of the world itself." --Washington Post Book World

    "A powerful allegory of human suffering and striving." --New York Times

    "A remakable literary feat." --Dallas Morning News

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    Winner of the Nobel Prize 

    First published in Arabic in 1959, this deeply spiritual and prophetic work comes from “the single most important writer in modern Arabic literature” (Newsweek). Through the story of a delightful Egyptian family, this novel reveals the spiritual history of humankind as the men and women of a modern Cairo neighborhood unwittingly reenact the lives of their holy ancestors.

    Translated by Peter Theroux.

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    • WINNER | 1988
      Nobel Prize

    Author

    Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. His nearly forty novels and hundreds of short stories range from re-imaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. Of his many works, the most famous is the Cairo Trilogy, consisting of Palace Walk (1956), Palace of Desire (1957), and Sugar Street (1957), which focuses on a Cairo family through three generations, from 1917 until 1952. In 1988, he was the first writer in Arabic to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in August 2006.  View titles by Naguib Mahfouz

    Praise

    "Immensely entertaining and deeply serious." --Chicago Tribune

    "An ambitious fable that attempts to embrace within its pages not merely the world of the Middle East but that of the world itself." --Washington Post Book World

    "A powerful allegory of human suffering and striving." --New York Times

    "A remakable literary feat." --Dallas Morning News

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