Charles Thomas
Cairo Tales
Khan al-Khalili
By Naguib Mahfouz (Translated by Roger Allen)
The American University in Cairo Press 304pp £15.99 order from our bookshop
The Mirage
By Naguib Mahfouz (Translated by Nancy Roberts)
The American University in Cairo Press 400pp £18.99 order from our bookshop
Good news for any Mahfouz enthusiast planning to visit Cairo or Luxor. Take an empty suitcase and you can now buy, thanks to the American University in Cairo Press, a boxed set of ‘The 25 Fiction Volumes of the Nobel Laureate in English’. Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006) was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1988, after which right-thinking booksellers moved his available works from Oriental Studies to Fiction A–Z. Good news, too, that decent English versions of Khan al-Khalili (1946) and The Mirage (1948) have just appeared.
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