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 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).
Adrift on the Nile
Adrift on the Nile - 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 Adrift on the Nile write by Naguib Mahfouz. This book was released on 1994-01-01. Adrift on the Nile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 disintegrating, culminating in a midnight joyride that ends in tragedy.
Autumn Quail
Autumn Quail - 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 Autumn Quail write by Naguib Mahfouz. This book was released on 2016-06-15. Autumn Quail available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Autumn Quail is a tale of moral responsibility, alienation, and political downfall featuring a corrupt young bureaucrat, Isa ad-Dabbagh, who is one of the early victims of the purge after the 1952 Revolution in Egypt. The conflict between his emotional instincts and his gradual intellectual acceptance of the Revolution forms the framework for a remarkable portrait of the clash between past and present, a portrait that is ultimately an optimistic one in which the two will peacefully coexist.
Abbas's Influence upon the Alley in Naguib Mahfouz's "Midaq Alley"
Abbas's Influence upon the Alley in Naguib Mahfouz's "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 Abbas's Influence upon the Alley in Naguib Mahfouz's "Midaq Alley" write by Sofia Arslan. This book was released on 2017-05-02. Abbas's Influence upon the Alley in Naguib Mahfouz's "Midaq Alley" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, , language: English, abstract: The beauty of Mahfouz's characters is that they all stand out from each other. With Midaq Alley's setting in Egypt during the Second World War, the wave of modernization was strange yet captivating for every individual which holds a very important role in the novel. Torn in the shades of black and white, New and Classics, conservative minds and so called open mindedness the characters are constantly seen struggling on many levels.
