The Coffeehouse

by Naguib Mahfouz

Overview

The Coffeehouse- In this novel, Naguib Mahfouz explores the friendship five friends from the neighborhood, two from eastern Abbasiya, where the wealthy of the past lived in the Sarayat, and two from the more humble Western Abbasiya, and the fifth is the narrator, who many think represents Mahfouz.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789778652772
Publisher:	Diwan
Publication date:	01/01/2024
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	152
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years
Language:	Arabic

About the Author

Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006) was born in the crowded Cairo district of Gamaliya. He wrote nearly 40 novel-length works, plus hundreds of short stories and numerous screenplays. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. His most recent works to appear in English translation are Before the Throne and The Mirage (both AUC Press, 2009).

Raymond Stock, with a PhD in Near Eastern languages and civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania, is writing a biography of Naguib Mahfouz. He is the translator of numerous works by Mahfouz, most recently Before the Throne (2009).