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      Midaq Alley

      by Naguib Mahfouz
      Published
      Jan 1992
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      304
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      The Cairo Trilogy

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      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.

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      First Edition Dec 1991 Anchor ISBN13 9780385264761 ISBN10 0385264763
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      First Edition Jan 1992 Doubleday ISBN13 9780385269407 ISBN10 0385269404
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      Jan 1989 Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. ISBN13 9780894106576 ISBN10 0894106570
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      Apr 1989 Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. ISBN13 9780894106583 ISBN10 0894106589
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      Jan 1981 Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. ISBN13 9780894102820 ISBN10 0894102826
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      Jan 1992 Anchor ISBN13 9780385264754 ISBN10 0385264755
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      Feb 2002 Smith, Peter Publisher, Inc. ISBN13 9780844672250 ISBN10 0844672254
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      Nov 2011 Random House ISBN13 9781407083773 ISBN10 1407083775
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      Jun 2016 Knopf ISBN13 9781101974667 ISBN10 1101974664
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      Jun 2016 Anchor ISBN10 B01GBAKARU
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