Praise for Naguib Mahfouz:
"The greatest writer in one of the most widely understood languages in the world, a storyteller of the first order in any idiom." –
Vanity Fair "A Dickens of the Cairo cafes." –
Newsweek "The incredible variety of Naguib Mahfouz's writings continue to dazzle our eyes." –
The Washington Post "Naguib Mahfouz virtually invented the novel as an Arab form. He excels at fusing deep emotion and soap opera." –
The New York Times Book Review "Mahfouz's work is freshly nuanced and hauntingly lyrical. The Nobel Prize acknowledges the universal significance of his fiction." –
Los Angeles Times Book Review
