| #83724 in Books | Anchor Books | 1992-01-01 | 1992-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.99 x.67 x5.21l,.51 | File type: PDF | 304 pages | Fiction||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A masterpiece of modern arabic litraure|By Koan|Midaq Alley is one of the early books of Mahfouz, a real masterpiece of modern Egiptian and Arabic litrature.The book is fiction but is about real places and real people. I am Egiptian myself, born in Cairo and walked in this neighborhood because it is in the heart of Cairo where most of Prophet Muhammed's family have shrines such|From Library Journal|Written in the 1940s, this novel by the Egyptian Nobel laureate Mahfouz deals with the plight of impoverished classes in an old quarter of Cairo. The lives and situations depicted create an atmosphere of sadness and tragic realism. Indeed, f
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 cit...
You easily download any file type for your device.Midaq Alley | Naguib Mahfouz. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
