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280 pages • first pub 1947 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9789774164835
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Publication date: 15 December 2011
Description
This much-loved Mahfouz masterpiece is a rich account of life in a back street in a poor quarter of medieval Cairo. While the novel focuses on a willful young woman whose ambition to escape the confines of the alley leads her into prostitution, a ...
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280 pages • first pub 1947 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9789774164835
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Publication date: 15 December 2011
Description
This much-loved Mahfouz masterpiece is a rich account of life in a back street in a poor quarter of medieval Cairo. While the novel focuses on a willful young woman whose ambition to escape the confines of the alley leads her into prostitution, a ...