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The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street

The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street


by Naguib Mahfouz | William Maynard Hutchins | Olive Kenney | Lorne Kenney | Angele Botras Samaan | Edward W. Said

  • LITERATURE
  • 2001
  • HARD COVER
  • 1313 PAGES

Of his thirty-some novels, stories, essays and film scripts, this is Mahfouz's most enduring and loved series, famously set in the hurly-burly of the streets, alleyways and overlapping balconies of Cairo's ancient Gamaliya quarter. A handsome Everyman's Library edition. (EGY84, $35.00)

An Evil Eye

An Evil Eye


by Jason Goodwin

  • MYSTERY
  • 2011
  • HARD COVER
  • 304 PAGES

Back from Venice, Investigator Yashim is drawn into the mysterious and dangerous intrigues of the sultan's harem at Topkapi Palace in this fourth novel in the Ottoman Empire Series. (TKY240, $26.00)

Levant, Splendor and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean

Levant, Splendor and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean


by Philip Mansel

  • HISTORY
  • 2011
  • HARD COVER
  • 470 PAGES

Mansel plumbs the histories of three remarkable cities of great wealth, pleasure and freedom -- Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut -- from their cosmopolitan glory days to their fate in the 20th-centuiry, revealing cultural precedents for the reality of the contemporary Middle East. (MED178, $35.00)

 

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