Children of the alley

The tale of a Mafia-like don in Egypt. He lives in a mansion in Cairo, uphill at the end of an alley whose inhabitants he exploits. He is the patriarch of a large family whose wealth comes from dealing in drugs and various protection rackets. While family members jockey for power, the people below l...

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1. Verfasser: Maḥfūẓ, Naǧīb (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Theroux, Peter (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York u.a. Doubleday 1996
Ausgabe:1. ed.
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Zusammenfassung:The tale of a Mafia-like don in Egypt. He lives in a mansion in Cairo, uphill at the end of an alley whose inhabitants he exploits. He is the patriarch of a large family whose wealth comes from dealing in drugs and various protection rackets. While family members jockey for power, the people below live in squalor, dreaming of the revolutionary heroes their poverty produced. An expose of injustice in Egypt by a Nobel Prize winner and author of 30 novels.
Beschreibung:Aus dem Arab. übers.
Beschreibung:448 S.
ISBN:0385420943
0-385-42094-3