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The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street; Introduction by Sabry Hafez
ISBN: 9780375413315 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 1368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych.
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 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 of self-indulgence. Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife,...
Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize--winning writer'... |
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Khan Al-Khalili
ISBN: 9780307742575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Khan al-Khalili, by Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz, portrays the clash of old and new in an historic Cairo neighborhood as German bombs fall on the city.
The time is 1942, World War II is at its height, and the Africa Campaign is raging along the northern coast of Egypt. Against this backdrop, Mahfouz s novel tells the story of the Akifs, a middle-class family that has taken refuge in Cairo s colorful and bustling Khan al-Khalili neighborhood. Believing that the German forces will never bomb such a famously religious part of the city, they leave their more elegant... Khan al-Khalili, by Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz, portrays the clash of old and new in an historic Cairo neighborhood as German bomb...
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Children of the Alley: A Novel
ISBN: 9780385264730 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The tumultuous alley of this rich and intricate novel (first published in Arabic in 1959) is inhabited by a delightful Egyptian family, but is also the setting for a second, hidden, and more daring narrative: the spiritual history of humankind. The men and women of a modern Cairo neighborood unwittingly reenact the lives of their holy ancestors: from the feudal lord who disowns one son for diabolical pride and puts another to the test, to the savior of a succeeding generation who frees his people from bondage. This powerful novel confirms again the richness and variety of Mahfouz's...
The tumultuous alley of this rich and intricate novel (first published in Arabic in 1959) is inhabited by a delightful Egyptian family, but is also th...
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kottaratheruvu
ISBN: 9788126207084 / Malayalam / Miękka / 2011 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Palace of Desire
ISBN: 9780307947116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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. Palace of Desire is the second novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt... |
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The Coffeehouse
ISBN: 9789774163517 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A novel of loss and memory from the Egyptian Nobel laureate.
On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya, five young boys become friends for life, making a nearby cafe, Qushtumur, their favorite gathering spot forever. One is the narrator, who, looking back in his old age on their seven decades together, makes the other four the heroes of his tale, a Proustian (and classically Mahfouzian) quest in search of lost time and the memory of a much-changed place. In a seamless stream of personal triumphs and tragedies, their lives play out against the backdrop of two world... A novel of loss and memory from the Egyptian Nobel laureate.
On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya, five young boys becom... |
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The Quarter
ISBN: 9780863563751 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Newly discovered collection of unpublished stories by key figure and Nobel Prize winner in literature, these fable-like stories carry Mahfouz's signature observations of the human character, taking the reader deep into the beating heart of Cairo
Newly discovered collection of unpublished stories by key figure and Nobel Prize winner in literature, these fable-like stories carry Mahfouz's signat...
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Cairo Modern
ISBN: 9780307473530 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Naguib Mahfouz's suspenseful novel a bitter and ambitious nihilist, a beautiful and impoverished student, and a corrupt official engage in a doomed menage a trois.
Cairo of the 1930s is a place of vast social and economic inequities. It is also a time of change, when the universities have just opened to women and heady new philosophies imported from Europe are stirring up debates among the young. Mahgub is a fiercely proud student who is determined to keep both his poverty and his lack of principles secret from his idealistic friends. When he finds that there are no jobs for those... In Naguib Mahfouz's suspenseful novel a bitter and ambitious nihilist, a beautiful and impoverished student, and a corrupt official engage in a doomed...
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Heart of the Night
ISBN: 9789774169984 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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Palace Walk
ISBN: 9780307947109 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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 tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sons the tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolute hedonist Yasin, and... 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 ...
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Adrift on the Nile
ISBN: 9780385423335 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1966, Naguib Mahfouz's Adrift on the Nile is an atmospheric novel that dramatizes the rootlessness of Egypt's cosmopolitan middle class. Anis Zani is a bored and drug-addicted civil servant who is barely holding on to his job. Every evening he hosts a gathering on a houseboat on the Nile, where he and a motley group of cynical and aimless friends share a water pipe full of kif, a mixture of tobacco and marijuana. When a young female journalist--an -alarmingly serious person---joins them and begins secretly documenting their activities, the group's harmony starts...
First published in 1966, Naguib Mahfouz's Adrift on the Nile is an atmospheric novel that dramatizes the rootlessness of Egypt's cosmopolitan m...
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I Found Myself...The Last Dreams
ISBN: 9780241774137 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Arabian Nights and Days
ISBN: 9780385469012 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written inhis 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 their depths for timeless truths."
The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written inhis own imaginative, spellb...
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Sugar Street: From the Nobel Prizewinning author
ISBN: 9780552995825 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This is the third part of 'The Cairo Trilogy', by the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. It is an Egyptian family saga featuring the bullying, pompous patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmed and his long-suffering family. This book takes the family into the middle of the 20th century.
This is the third part of 'The Cairo Trilogy', by the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. It is an Egyptian family saga featuring the bully...
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Respected Sir, Wedding Song, the Search
ISBN: 9780385498364 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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-revolution Egypt. Diverse in style and narrative technique, they render a nuanced and universally resonant vision of modern life in the Middle East.
Respected Sir, a latter-day Bleak House in Arabic (The New York Times),... A new volume of three novels previously published separately by Anchor by Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Together with Th...
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Khufu's Wisdom
ISBN: 9781400076673 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. At the center of Khufu s Wisdom, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz s majestic first novel, is the legendary Fourth Dynasty monarch Khufu (Cheops), for whom the Great Pyramid of Giza was built. When a seer prophesies the end of Khufu s dynasty and the ascension to the throne of Djedefra, son of the High Priest of Ra, the pharaoh must battle to preserve his legacy against the will of the Fates. But in the face of the inexorable attraction between Djedefra and Princess Meresankh, Khufu s beautiful daughter, Khufu must consider not only his personal ambition and the opposing... At the center of Khufu s Wisdom, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz s majestic first novel, is the legendary Fourth Dynasty monarch Khufu ... |
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Theruvinte Makkal
ISBN: 9789387357839 / Malayalam / Miękka / 2019 / 594 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Karnak Café
ISBN: 9780307390455 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this gripping and suspenseful novella from the Egyptian Nobel Prize-winner, three young friends survive interrogation by the secret police, only to find their lives poisoned by suspicion, fear, and betrayal. At a Cairo cafe in the 1960s, a legendary former belly dancer lovingly presides over a boisterous family of regulars, including a group of idealistic university students. One day, amid reports of a wave of arrests, three of the students disappear: the excitable Hilmi, his friend Ismail, and Ismail's beautiful girlfriend Zaynab. When they return months later, they are apparently...
In this gripping and suspenseful novella from the Egyptian Nobel Prize-winner, three young friends survive interrogation by the secret police, only to...
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The Mirage
ISBN: 9780307742582 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 473 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A stunning example of Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz's psychological portraiture, The Mirage is the story of an intense young man who has been so dominated by his mother that her death sets him dangerously adrift in a world he cannot manage alone.
Kamil Ru'ba is a tortured soul who hopes that writing the story of his life will help him gain control of it. Raised by a mother who fled her abusive husband and became overbearingly possessive and protective toward her young son, he has long been isolated emotionally and physically. Now in his twenties, Kamil seeks to... A stunning example of Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz's psychological portraiture, The Mirage is the story of an intense you...
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Midaq Alley
ISBN: 9780385264761 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Widely acclaimed asNaguib Mahfouz's best novel, Midaq Alley brings to lifeone of the hustling, teeming back alleysof Cairoin 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 Alleyvividly evoke Egypt's largestcity as it teeters on the brink of change. Never has Nobel Prize-winnerMahfouz's talent for rich and luxurious storytelling been more evident than here, in his portrait...
Widely acclaimed asNaguib Mahfouz's best novel, Midaq Alley brings to lifeone of the hustling, teeming back alleysof Cairoin the 1940s. From Za...
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