The novelist's camera pans from the dome of King Fuad University (now Cairo University) to students streaming out of the campus, focusing on four students in their twenties, each representing a different trend in Egypt in the 1930s. Finally the...
Sugar Street is the final novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.
The novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family...
Palace of Desire is the second novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.
The novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the...
A stunning novel by the widest-read Arab writer currently published in the U.S. The age of Nasser has ushered in enormous social change, and most of the middle-aged and middle-class sons and daughters of the old bourgeoisie find themselves trying to...
Palace Walk is the first novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.
The novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of...
Alexandria — die Stadt des Sonnenlichts, von Himmelswasser rein gewaschen, das Herz von Erinnerungen, voll der Süße des Honigs und der Bitternis von Tränen… Die Pension Miramar hat ihre besten Zeiten hinter sich, sie ist zum...
Herr Anis wird zum Bürovorsteher zitiert. Die geforderte Aufstellung hat er zwar geschrieben. Nur war im Füller keine Tinte. Mit der Aufforderung, Haschischbude und Amt künftig zu unterscheiden, kommt er noch einmal davon. Nach...
Die Originalausgabe erschien 1983 unter dem Titel Rihlat Ibn Fattuma in Kairo.
Nagib Machfus nimmt sich die großen Reisenden aus der Blütezeit des Islam zum Vorbild für Ibn Fattumas Entdeckung ganz und gar heutiger...