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  Miramar

  by Naguib Mahfouz

  A highly charged, tightly written tale of  intersecting lives that provides us with both an engaging  and powerful story as well as a vivid portrait of  life in Egypt in the late 1960's.
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  Arabian Nights and Days

  by Naguib Mahfouz

  Seventeen interlinked tales by the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature follow such themes as betrayal, intrigue, obsessive love, social injustice, reincarnations, and wrongs righted or made worse. Reprint. K.
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  The Cairo Trilogy

  Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street

  by Naguib Mahfouz

  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... (more)