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1	Palace Walk more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz The first volume in Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy looks into the lives of the family of al-Sayyid Ahmad, a merchant who forces his family to follow strict religious rules while he follows his desires, sampling the alluring nightlife of the city. see all copies from £3.61! new only from £10.34! \| first editions
2	Midaq Alley more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz Centred around the residents of one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo: Kirsha, the cafe-owner with a scandalous predilection for young boys, Hamida, the matchmaker's daughter, and Zaita, the cripple-maker - who maims and disfigures people who wish to become beggars. see all copies from £2.55! new only from £6.21! \| first editions
3	The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz, Edward W. Said (Introduction by) (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize--winning writer's masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain's occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century. The novels of "The Cairo ... see all copies from £17.08! new only from £19.15! \| first editions
4	Children of the Alley more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz, Peter Theroux (Translator) In this many-layered novel by Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, the actions of men and women in Cairo echo--unbeknownst to them--the actions of their holy ancestors. This book was first published in Arabic in 1959. see all copies from £7.45! new only from £10.15! \| first editions
5	Palace of Desire more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz The second part of "The Cairo Trilogy" by the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. It is a true-life Egyptian family saga featuring the bullying, pompous, belching, self-adoring patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmed and his long-suffering family in domestic turmoil, with feuding in-laws. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £7.76! \| first editions
6	Arabian Nights and Days more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz see all copies from £7.08! new only from £10.19! \| first editions
7	Sugar Street more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz see all copies from £3.30! new only from £8.74! \| first editions
8	The Journey of Ibn Fattouma more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Denys Johnson-Davies (Translator), Najib Mahfuz First published in Arabic in 1983, this brief but powerful parable is presented as the journal of a traveler known as Ibn Fattouma. A mystical, lyrical Pilgrim's Progress set in a mythical, timeless Middle East, by the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. see all copies from £5.52! new only from £8.98! \| first editions
9	The Beginning and the End more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz A powerful portrayal of a middle-class family suddenly plunged into an unending financial and social nightmare by the death of their father. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £7.76! \| first editions
10	Palace walk more books like this by Najib Mahfuz This is a sweeping and evocative portrait of both a family and a country struggling to move toward independence in a society that has resisted change for centuries. Set against the backdrop of Britain's occupation of Egypt immediately after World War I, Palace Walk introduces us to the Al Jawad family. Ahmad, a middle-class shopkeeper runs his ... see all copies from £1.98! new only from £7.90!
11 view cover	Adrift on the Nile more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz A novel, first published in Arabic in 1966, by the 1988 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. A group of disaffected middle-class Cairenes venture out for a drive which sets off a chain of events that destroys their easy camaraderie and exposes the frailty of human relationships. see all copies from £1.99! new only from £9.77! \| first editions
12 view cover	Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Tagreid Abu-Habbaro (Translator) see all copies from £5.52! new only from £8.98!
13 view cover	The Thief and the Dogs more books like this by Naguib Manfouz, Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz First published in 1961, this novel by a Nobel Prize-winning author tells the story of a man who blames an unjust society for his ill fortune. He reverts to old, thieving habits, and eventually brings himself to destruction in a cruel world. see all copies from £8.98! new only from £8.98!
14 view cover	The Beggar, the Thief and the Dogs, Autumn Quail more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz In THE BEGGAR, a former revolutionary, now a comfortable member of the bourgeoisie after the 1952 revolution in Cairo, experiences intense alienation when the change in government deprives him of any significant role. THE THIEF AND THE DOGS is the tale of a revolutionary who is released from prison only to destroy himself through his own ... see all copies from £7.59! new only from £9.50!
15 view cover	Miramar more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz Once again, Naguib Mahfouz has fashioned a highly charged, tightly written tale of intersecting lives that provides readers with both an engaging and powerful story as well as a vivid portrait of life in Egypt in the late 1960s. Set in Alexandria, Miramar tells the violent, tragic story of the former grand hostelry Miramar, now a pension run by an ... see all copies from £6.21! new only from £13.07! \| first editions
16 view cover	Harafish more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz Written by a Nobel Prize-winner, this is a mythic tale with a modern, soap-opera-like plot, featuring the dramatic history of the al-Nagi family. It displays the weaknesses of the human character - pride, dishonesty, lust, greed - and of the greatness we are capable of when we overcome them. see all copies from £5.52! new only from £8.97! \| first editions
17 view cover	Children of Gebelaawi more books like this by Najib Mahfuz An allegorical novel about the Cairo alley that often appears in Mahfouz's work, but which is inhabited this time by Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed. see all copies from £8.12!
18	The Cairo trilogy more books like this by Najib Mahfuz see all copies from £13.11! new only from £60.90! \| first editions
19 view cover	Wedding Song more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najeib Mahfeuz see all copies from £1.78! new only from £24.84! \| first editions
20 view cover	The Search more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz A story of crime and passion in which a young man's search for his father turns sour when the scheming wife of his landlord enlists him in a plan to commit the most sordid of crimes. Naguib Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. see all copies from £3.16! new only from £10.03! \| first editions
21 view cover	Autumn Quail more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz A corrupt young bureaucrat finds himself ostracized in his own country, when he is denounced in the purges following the 1952 revolution. see all copies from £2.96! new only from £9.83! \| first editions
22 view cover	Respected Sir, Wedding Song, the Search more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz A new volume of three novels–previously published separately by Anchor–by Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Together with The Beggar, The Thief and The Dogs, and Autumn Quail (published by Anchor in December 2000), these novels represent a comprehensive collection of Mahfouz’s artful meditations on post ... see all copies from £10.94! new only from £10.94!
23 view cover	Echoes of an Autobiography more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Denys Johnson-Davies (Translator), Nadine Gordimer (Foreword by) Readers of Mahfouz's fiction will find many of the same themes that run through his fiction in this autobiography--his preoccupation with old age, death and life's transitory moments--all treated with his characteristic wry good humor. Also of special interest is a number of passages that he devotes to the aphoristic sayings of the traditional ... see all copies from £5.52! new only from £9.79! \| first editions
24 view cover	The Day the Leader Was Killed more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz Traces the life of a middle-class Cairene family living in the early 1980s under President Sadat - an era of transition in Egypt and a time of acute crisis. Age-old traditions and values were falling apart, making way for a merciless new materialism in "the kingdom of the corrupt". see all copies from £6.41! new only from £8.98!
25 view cover	Voices from the Other World: Ancient Egyptian Tales more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz see all copies from £7.83! new only from £7.83!

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