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.
- ISBN10 0894106570
- ISBN13 9780894106576
- Publish Date 1 January 1991 (first published 1 June 1981)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc
- Edition 2nd Us ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 246
- Language English