Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he
was seventeen. His nearly forty novels and hundreds of short
stories range from re-imaginings of ancient myths to subtle
commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. Of his
many works, most famous is The Cairo Trilogy, consisting of Palace
Walk (1956), Palace of Desire (1957), and Sugar Street (1957),
which focuses on a Cairo family through three generations, from
1917 until 1952. In 1988, he was the first writer in Arabic to be
awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in August 2006.
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“Cryptic, haunting, and brief. . . . Frequently the narrator begins in delight and wonder . . . and ends in terror, doubt, and confusion.” —The New Yorker“Mahfouz [gives us] a sense of immersion in a mind at the edge of life, a mind returning to its elemental instincts. . . . Mahfouz maintains an unruffled, even humorous voice in the face of these volatile dreamscapes. . . . A fine, surreal filter through which to divine all the elements at play in contemporary Egyptian society.” —The Seattle Times
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