The Boston Globe, April 8th, 1994
HARAFISH By Naguib Mahfouz Doubleday, 406 pp., $22.95 When the Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize in 1988, his work had an audience of millions of readers, almost none of them in America. Since the prize, however, Doubleday has published 16 of Mahfouz's books in English translation -- still only a fraction of his output, since he has written nearly 50 books. The "Cairo Trilogy," the early novels that established Mahfouz's reputation, won loyal readers here and sold more than 250,000 copies. The trilogy was a meticulous depiction of a specific place and time; it was written on...
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