Midaq Alley
by Naguib Mahfouz; Naguib Mahfuz; Najib Mahfouz; Najib Mahfuz; Najīb Maḥfūẓ; Trevor Le Gassick (trans)
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 9774240588
- ISBN 13
- 9789774240584
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About This Item
Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1975. Paperback. Fourth Printing, 1988. Very Good. Gift inscription to title page. Text unmarked. Spine cocked. Heavy reading wear to covers and edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xi + 246 pages.
Translation of: Zuqāq al-Midaqq.
Translation of: Zuqāq al-Midaqq.
Synopsis
Midaq Alley is the English Translation of Zuqāq al-Midaq by Naguib Mahfouz, released in English in 1966. The story is about Midaq Alley, a teeming back street in Cairo which is a microcosm of the world. This work won its author the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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- Books of the World (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000003537
- Title
- Midaq Alley
- Author
- Naguib Mahfouz; Naguib Mahfuz; Najib Mahfouz; Najib Mahfuz; Najīb Maḥfūẓ; Trevor Le Gassick (trans)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 9774240588
- ISBN 13
- 9789774240584
- Publisher
- American University in Cairo
- Place of Publication
- Cairo
- Date Published
- 1975
- Pages
- xi + 246
- Size
- 12mo
- Keywords
- fiction, allegories, Cairo, Egypt
- Bookseller catalogs
- Africa; Fiction; Middle East;
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