Children of Gebelaawi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Children of Gebelaawi write by Najīb Maḥfūẓ. This book was released on 1990. Children of Gebelaawi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First pub 1967. Draws on Jewish, Christian, and Islamic history for the plot in an allegory recounting the lives of the offspring of one man.
Children of the Alley
Children of the Alley - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Children of the Alley write by Naguib Mahfouz. This book was released on 2016-06-15. Children of the Alley available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 storytelling and his status as "the single most important writer in modern Arabic literature" (Newsweek).
Midaq Alley
Midaq Alley - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Midaq Alley write by Naguib Mahfouz. This book was released on 2016-06-15. Midaq Alley available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 city as it teeters on the brink of change. Never has Nobel Prize-winner Mahfouz's talent for rich and luxurious storytelling been more evident than here, in his portrait of one small street as a microcosm of the world on the threshold of modernity.
Children of Gebelaawi
Children of Gebelaawi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Children of Gebelaawi write by Najīb Maḥfūẓ. This book was released on 1990. Children of Gebelaawi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story recreates the interlinked history of the three monotheistic Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), allegorised against the setting of an imaginary 19th century Cairene alley. Critics claimed that Gabalawi stands for God. Mahfouz rejected this, saying that he stood for "a certain idea of God that men have made" and that "Nothing can represent God. God is not like anything else. God is gigantic." The first four sections retell, in succession, the stories of: Adam and how he was favoured by Gabalawi over the latter's other sons, including the eldest Satan/Iblis. In subsequent generations the heroes relive the lives of Moses, Jesus and Muhammad. The followers of each hero settle in different parts of the alley, symbolising Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The protagonist of the book's fifth section is Arafa, who symbolises modern science and comes after the prophets, while all of their followers claim Arafa as one of their own. Central to the plot are the futuwwat (plural of futuwwa, 'strongman'), who control the alley and exact protection money from the people. The successive heroes overthrow the strongmen of their time, but in the next generation new strongmen spring up and things are as bad as ever. Arafa tries to use his knowledge of explosives to destroy the strongmen, but his attempts to discover Gabalawi's secrets leads to the death of the old man (though he does not directly kill him). The Chief Strongman guesses the truth and blackmails Arafa into helping him to become the dictator of the whole Alley. The book ends, after the murder of Arafa, with his friend searching in a rubbish tip for the book in which Arafa wrote his secrets. The people say "Oppression must cease as night yields to day. We shall see the end of tyranny and the dawn of miracles."
The Quarter
The Quarter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Quarter write by Naguib Mahfouz. This book was released on 2019-07-01. The Quarter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Meet the people of Cairo's Gamaliya quarter. There is Nabqa, son of Adam the waterseller who can only speak truths; the beautiful and talented Tawhida who does not age with time; Ali Zaidan, the gambler, late to love; and Boss Saqr who stashes his money above the bath. A neighbourhood of demons, dancing and sweet halva, the quarter keeps quiet vigil over the secrets of all who live there. This collection by pre-eminent Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz was recently discovered among his old papers. Found with a slip of paper titled 'for publishing 1994', they are published here for the first time. Resplendent with Mahfouz's delicate and poignant observations of everyday happenings, these lively stories take the reader deep into the beating heart of Cairo.
