The Cairo of Naguib Mahfouz

by جمال الغيطاني and Gamal al-Ghitani

For Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, Cairo has always been a place of special resonance. As the place in which he was born and has lived his whole life, it is a city he loves passionately and has visited and revisited in his writing. It is the setting for nearly all his novels and short stories, not merely as a backdrop but as an integral part of his fiction, playing its own role in the dramas. The old streets of the Cairo Trilogy and the microcosmic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9774165527
• ISBN13: 9789774165528
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 8.6"