Children of Gebelaawi
A Novel

An allegorical novel about the Cairo alley that often appears in Mahfouz's work, but which is inhabited this time by Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed.

 

ISBN	1578890381
ISBN13	9781578890385
Publisher	Passeggiata Press
Format	Paperback
Publication date	00/00/0000
Pages	497
Weight (grammes)	751.0
Published in	United States
Height (mm)	230
Width (mm)	155

Naguib Mahfouz is probably the best-known Arabic writer of the 20th century. He studied philosophy at Cairo University, graduating in 1934. Since then, he has been writing novels and short stories, many of them about the Cairo neighborhood he knows intimately. Mahfouz was awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in literature, and was the first writer of Arabic descent to do so. Many of his works have been banned or are unavailable in Islamic nations of the Middle East because of his criticism of the regime in Egypt after the overthrow of King Farouk in 1952.