CHILDREN OF THE ALLEY

553pp., paperback, Black Star Books and Head of Zeus, Reprint, London, (1995) 2024

ISBN: 9781035907311

First published in Arabic in 1959 as Awlad haratina. Translated into English by Peter Theroux.

The inhabitants of a modern neighbourhood in Cairo known as the alley unknowingly re-enact the lives of their spiritual ancestors.

"A powerful allegory of human suffering and striving." New York Times

"An ambitious fable that attempts to embrace within its pages not merely the world of the Middle East but that of the world itself." Washington Post Book World

Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. The author of more than 30 novels, he died in 2006.