Cairo Trilogy. Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street, Hardback - Naguib Mahfouz

Filled with compelling drama, earthy humour and remarkable insight, this book traces three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Say...

This is a sweeping and evocative portrait of both a family and a country struggling to move toward independence in a society that has resisted chan...

Nobel winning author, Naguib Mahfouz's late-translated novella, Heart of the Night is now available for the first time in paperback Jaafar Ibrahim ...

Mahfouz's last novel, an evocative depiction of life in Egypt in the twentieth century as told through the lives of a group of friends, is now avai...

Reducere. Karnak Caf, Hardcover

In these essays Mahfouz comments on Egyptian politics, the role of Parliament and the institutional changes that took place in Egypt after Honsi Mu...

In these essays Naguib Mahfouz comments on Egyptian politics, the role of Parliament, and the institutional changes that took place in Egypt after ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Dan Hofstadter 978-1-86197-450-1

DescriptionMeet the people of Cairo's Gamaliya quarter. There is Nabqa, son of Adam the waterseller who can only speak truths; the beautiful and ta...

Reducere. Emperor Diocletian's palace is a historic marvel - this book and its sketches, published by architect Robert Adam in the 1760s, aided the rediscove...

Naguib Mahfouz's haunting novella of post-revolutionary Egypt combines a vivid pychological portrait of an anguished man with the suspense and rapi...

Reducere. DISC: 1 1. Dragons2. Star Scat3. Ended With The Night4. Jolie Coquine5. Oooh6. Suzy7. Je M'amuse8. Violente Valse9. Brotherswing 110. L'envol 111. ...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): David WalliamsNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 147 x 219 x 33Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

Reducere. From Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz: the three magnificent novels--published in an omnibus edition for the first time--that form an ancient-Egyptian...

Reducere. Richly nuanced and beautiful. . . . An immersive and magical tale of loneliness, love, and finding hope." -- BuzzfeedIn this enthralling historical...

Reducere. Richly nuanced and beautiful. . . . An immersive and magical tale of loneliness, love, and finding hope." -- BuzzfeedIn this enthralling historical...

Reducere. In this provocative and dreamy parable, a young man disillusioned by the corruption of his homeland sets out on a quest to find Gebel, the land of ...

Publisher: American University in Cairo PressAuthor(s): Mohamed ShoairTranslator: Humphrey DaviesNumber of pages: 222Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

DescriptionThe rooms we live in are always more than just four walls. As we decorate these spaces and fill them with objects and friends, they shap...

This highly charged fable set in Alexandria, Egypt, in the late 1960s, centers on the guests of the Pension Miramar as they compete for the attenti...

Reducere. In the tradition of The Glass Castle, two sisters confront schizophrenia in this poignant literary memoir about family and mental illness. Through ...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Helene WeckerNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 156 x 228 x 38Cover type: PaperbackRedescoper...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Janice KimWith: Soo-Hyun JeongThe Palace of Memory is the fifth volume of the award-winning Learn to Play Go series. Covers...

Publisher: Hirmer VerlagAuthor(s): Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner SchlossIllustration(s): 226 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 160Publicat...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written inhis own imaginative, spe...

Reducere. The untold story of an eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses he assembled before World War II to develop the science f...

Somehow, for all my outward pretence of cold-eyed professionalism, all my insistence that writing is simply a job like any other, I've discovered t...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading By the start of the 18th century, England had recov...