Book Description
for Fountain and Tomb by Naguib Mahfouz
From the Publisher
Naguib Mahfouz's kaleidoscopic novel is set in Cairo during the 1920s. The narrator tells tales of the street - of separated lovers, childhood games, workers, neighbours, loneliness. In his alley, his small slice of Egypt, he finds the excitement and harshness of Cairo at the one end, and the withdrawn but beautiful world of the sanctuary at the other.
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