Children of the Alley by Mahfouz, Naguib mind & body

Children of the Alley by Mahfouz, Naguib mind & bodyAuthor: Mahfouz, Naguib Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published on 12 September 2024 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Apollo) in the United Kingdom. Paperback 576 pages 198 x 130 x 33 394g Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Naguib Mahfouz, offers this epic story of a single alley in Cairo and the generations that passed through it. A tumultuous neighbourhood known as 'the alley' has seen successive heroes rise and fall as they

and reimagined

but has aspects of all

But chosen by whom

thanks to one miraculous moment

'special meat' - human meat - is legal

As the novel brings us out of a broken future toward a unified present

Threading between clubs at closing time

WINNER of the James Tait Black Prize 2021

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Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the bus home

and armed with hindsight