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  • Zainab

    de Mohammed Hussein Haikal ...
    Traducido por John Mohammed Grinsted ...
    Zainab, a name which aptly reflects the beauty of this tale's protagonist is also the title of the first modern Egyptian novel written in native vernacular. Crafted in 1910 by a privileged member of society and a student at the time living in Paris, Mohammed Hussein Haikal later rose through the ranks of Egyptian politics and media. The writer, journalist and politician also holds a number of ... Leer más

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  • The Cairo Trilogy

    Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street; Introduction by Sabry Hafez

    de Naguib Mahfouz ...
    Traducido por William Maynard Hutchins, Olive E. Kenny, Lorne M. Kenny, Angele Botros Semaan ...
    Series series Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
    Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt—Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street—together in one volume.The masterwork of the Nobel Prize-winning author, the three novels of The Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life ... Leer más

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  • Palace Walk

    The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 1

    de Naguib Mahfouz ...
    Series Libro 1 - The Cairo Trilogy
    Volume I of the masterful Cairo Trilogy. A national best-seller in both hardcover and paperback, it introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1900s. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Celestial Bodies

    de Jokha Alharthi ...
    Traducido por Marilyn Booth ...
    This winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize and national bestseller is “an innovative reimagining of the family saga . . . Celestial Bodies is itself a treasure house: an intricately calibrated chaos of familial orbits and conjunctions, of the gravitational pull of secrets" (The New York Times Book Review).In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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  • One Thousand and One Nights

    A Retelling

    Gathered and passed down over the centuries from India, Persia, and across the Arab world, the mesmerizing stories of One Thousand and One Nights tell of the real and the supernatural, love and marriage, power and punishment, wealth and poverty, and the endless trials and uncertainties of fate. They are related by the beautiful, wise, young Shahrazad, who gives herself up to murderous King ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Midaq Alley

    de Naguib Mahfouz ...
    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 ... Leer más

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  • The President's Gardens

    de Muhsin Al-Ramli ...
    Traducido por Luke Leafgren ...
    One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite Runner in Saddam Hussein's Iraq."A contemporary tragedy of epic proportions. No author is better placed than Muhsin Al-Ramli, already a star in the Arabic literary scene, to tell this story. I read it in one sitting".Hassan Blasim, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Iraqi Christ.On the third day of Ramadan, the villa... ... Leer más

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  • The Sleeper In The Sands

    de Tom Holland ...
    Egypt, 1922: the Valley of the Kings. After years of fruitless labour, the archaeologist Howard Carter discovers a mysterious tomb, sealed and marked with a terrible curse. But what is the nature of the tomb's deadly secret? And what is the web of strange connections spreading back through millennia, to the very heart of Egypt's fabulous past? In a glorious Arabian Nightmare of lost cities, ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Arabian Nights and Days

    de Naguib Mahfouz ...
    The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories from the tradition of The One Thousand and One Nights, made new by the magical pen of the acknowledged dean of Arabic letters, who plumbs ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Days

    His Autobiography in Three Parts

    de Taha Hussein ...
    **Taha Hussein's classic autobiographical novel The Days helped usher in the era of modern Arabic writing and remains one of the most influential and best-known works of Arabic literature"It is difficult to overstate Taha Hussein's contribution to the intellectual renaissance in Egypt during the 20th century."—The Guardian**The monumental three-part autobiography of one of modern Egypt's greatest ... Leer más

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  • The Mummy Awakens

    de Naguib Mahfouz ...
    Series series A Vintage Short
    A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” SelectionBy the Arab world’s foremost novelist, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, famous for The Cairo Trilogy—the masterwork in which Mahfouz sets down life in middle class Cairo during the interwar years. From Mahfouz’s collection of fantastical myths, Voices from the Other World,this is the enchanting tale about one Francophile Pasha whose greed, ambition, and ... Leer más

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  • Laziness in the Fertile Valley

    de Albert Cossery, Anna Della Subin ...
    Traducido por William Goyen ...
    A portrait of a family of proud layabouts who avoid work and sleep all day by the Egyptian writer often referred to as "the Voltaire of the Nile"Laziness in the Fertile Valley is Albert Cossery’s biting social satire about a father, his three sons, and their uncle — slackers one and all. One brother has been sleeping for almost seven years, waking only to use the bathroom and eat a meal. Another ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD