The Epic of the Harafish - Naguib Mahfouz

Najeeb's epic, the greatest and most important, in which the human soul is described and torn between seeking salvation and pursuing pleasures. Ten stories, crowded with everything in life of struggle, sweetness, and seduction, in which the sons of "the Great Savior" appear as reformers seeking justice and goodness in their own way, standing against injustice and enduring temptation and the urges of human nature; they fall and triumph, corrupt and reform, in an astonishing epic in which generations succeed each other over two centuries from the era of the Great Savior to the last Ashour the Savior. The novel was published in 1977 and its stories were adapted to the cinema six times in the eighties and then to television in 2002.