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  • The Essential Yusuf Idris

    Masterpieces of the Egyptian Short Story

    by Yusuf Idris ...
    Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies, Wadida Wassef, Roger Allen, R. Neil Hewison, Mona Mikhail, Catherine Cobham, Ragia Fahmi, Saneya Shaarawi, Christopher Tingley0 ...
    Series series Great Egyptian Writers
    A carefully curated collection of short story masterpieces by Yusuf Idris, the Arab world’s greatest short-story writer of the twentieth century, called the “genius of the short story” by Tawfiq al-Hakim''Like the Russian aristocrats of Chekhov, the provincial bourgeoisie of Flaubert, or the Ibo villagers of Achebe, Idris raises his authentic characters into convincing types within their context: ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Full Tilt

    Ireland to India with a Bicycle

    by Dervla Murphy ...
    When Dervla Murphy was ten, she was given a bicycle and an atlas, and within days she was secretly planning a trip to India. At the age of thirty-one, in 1963, she finally set off and this book is based on the daily diary she kept while riding through Persia, Afghanistan and over the Himalayas to Pakistan and India. A lone woman on a bicycle (with a revolver in her trouser pocket) was an almost ... Read more

    $11.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Cairo Trilogy

    Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street; Introduction by Sabry Hafez

    by Naguib Mahfouz ...
    Translated by William Maynard Hutchins, Olive E. Kenny, Lorne M. Kenny, Angele Botros Semaan ...
    Series series Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
    Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt—Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street—together in one volume.The masterwork of the Nobel Prize-winning author, the three novels of The Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Palace Walk

    The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 1

    by Naguib Mahfouz ...
    Series Book 1 - The Cairo Trilogy
    Volume I of the masterful Cairo Trilogy. A national best-seller in both hardcover and paperback, it introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1900s. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Paradise

    by Abdulrazak Gurnah ...
    From the Nobel Prize winner, a coming-of-age story that illuminates the harshness and beauty of an Africa on the brink of colonizationShortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award, Paradise was characterized by the Nobel Prize committee as Abdulrazak Gurnah’s “breakthrough” work. It is at once the chronicle of an African boy’s coming-of-age, a tragic love story, and a tale of the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Midaq Alley

    by Naguib Mahfouz ...
    Widely acclaimed as Naguib Mahfouz's best novel, Midaq Alley brings to life one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo in the 1940s. From Zaita the cripple-maker to Kirsha the hedonistic cafe owner, from Abbas the barber who mistakes greed for love to Hamida who sells her soul to escape the alley, from waiters and widows to politicians, pimps, and poets, the inhabitants of Midaq Alley ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The President's Gardens

    by Muhsin Al-Ramli ...
    Translated by Luke Leafgren ...
    One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite Runner in Saddam Hussein's Iraq."A contemporary tragedy of epic proportions. No author is better placed than Muhsin Al-Ramli, already a star in the Arabic literary scene, to tell this story. I read it in one sitting".Hassan Blasim, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Iraqi Christ.On the third day of Ramadan, the villa... ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Prophet's Camel Bell

    by Margaret Laurence, Clara Thomas ...
    When Margaret Laurence set out for Somaliland with her engineer husband in 1950, she confronted the difficulty of communication between peoples of vastly different cultures. Yet she came to know the skilled orators, poets and craftsmen of the country, and to share the vision of a people’s struggle for survival in a barren land.The Prophet’s Camel Bell is part travelogue, part autobiography, part ... Read more

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  • Palace of Desire

    The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 2

    by Naguib Mahfouz ...
    Series Book 2 - The Cairo Trilogy
    The second volume of the highly acclaimed Cairo Trilogy from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Filled with compelling drama, earthy humor, and remarkable insight, Palace Of Desire is the unforgettable story of the violent clash between ideals and realities, dreams and desires. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • A Persian Requiem

    by Simin Daneshvar ...
    Tribal leaders in opposition to the government, the corruption of occupation, society torn apart by shifting political loyalties... this is the background to one woman's powerful story. A Persian Requiem is a powerful and evocative novel. Set in the southern Persian town of Shiraz in the last years of World War II, when the British army occupied the south of Persia, the novel chronicles the life ... Read more

    $7.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Praise of Hatred

    A Novel

    by Khaled Khalifa ...
    In 1980s Syria, a young Muslim girl lives a secluded life behind the veil in the vast and perfumed house of her grandparents. Her three aunts-the pious Maryam, the liberal Safaa, and the free-spirited Marwa-raise her with the aid of their ever-devoted blind servant.Soon the high walls of the family home are no longer able to protect the girl from the social and political chaos outside. Witnessing ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • The Thief and the Dogs

    by Naguib Mahfouz ...
    Naguib Mahfouz's haunting novella of post-revolutionary Egypt combines a vivid pychological portrait of an anguished man with the suspense and rapid pace of a detective story.After four years in prison, the skilled young thief Said Mahran emerges bent on revenge. He finds a world that has changed in more ways than one. Egypt has undergone a revolution and, on a more personal level, his beloved ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD