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Summary:

The saga of the al-Nagi family, tracing its rise from obscurity to power, to decadence, to rebirth. A mythic Egyptian tale with a soap opera plot by a Nobel Prize winner.

Author/Creator:

Maḥfūẓ, Najīb, 1911-2006

Contributors:

Cobham, Catherine

Languages:

English
Arabic

Language Notes:

Item content: English
Translated from (original): Arabic

Main Work:

Malḥamat al-ḥarāfīsh [by Maḥfūẓ, N.] (English)

Subjects:

Egypt — Fiction

Egypt

Genres:

Fiction

General Notes:

"The Harafish was first published in Arabic in 1977, under the title Malhamat al-harafish...The Harafish was originally published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1994"--T.p. verso.

Physical Description:

406 pages ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

PJ7846.A46 M2813 1995

ISBNs:

0385423357 (pbk.)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

94038311

OCLC Numbers:

31290424