The Epic of the Harafish - Naguib Mahfouz

Some consider it the most important and beautiful novel by the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz – published in 1977. The novel tells the story of ten generations who lived in an Egyptian alleyway, unspecified in time and place (besides being somewhere in Cairo). The last generation, which represented its final link, Toot and Nabout, was turned into a film in 1986. The novel outwardly describes what happens in the popular class of Egyptian society, but the many symbols and hints in the novel indicate the struggle of human generations in all times and places. PDF book