{"product_id":"9789774163876","title":"The Essential Naguib Mahfouz: Novels, Short Stories, Autobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003eA selection of the most important works of Egypt's Nobel literature laureate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNaguib Mahfouz, the first and only writer of Arabic to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature, wrote prolifically from the 1930s until shortly before his death in 2006, in a variety of genres: novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, a regular weekly newspaper column, and in later life his intensely brief and evocative Dreams. His Cairo Trilogy achieved the status of a world classic, and the Swedish Academy of Letters in awarding him the 1988 Nobel prize for literature noted that Mahfouz \"through works rich in nuance-now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous-has formed an Arabic narrative art that applies to all mankind.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere Denys Johnson-Davies, described by Edward Said as \"the leading Arabic-English translator of our time,\" and the first to translate Naguib Mahfouz into English, makes an essential selection of short stories and extracts from novels and other writings, to present a cross-section through time of the very best of the work of Egypt's Nobel literature laureate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"American University in Cairo Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47038814126320,"sku":"9789774163876","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789774163876_p0.jpg?v=1763689291","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789774163876","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}