Description: From Nobel laureate Mahfouz, these three magnificent novels, published in one edition for the first time, form an ancient Egyptian counterpart to his famous Cairo Trilogy. Includes "Khufu's Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia," and "Thebes at War."
Review Quotes: "Mahfouz's characters blaze with intensity, his Egypt pulsates with unresolved tensions."
--THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
--THE BOSTON GLOBE "He is not only a Hugo and a Dickens, but also a Galsworthy, a Mann, a Zola, and a Jules Romains."
--Edward Said, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS "Mahfouz is the single most important writer in modern Arabic literature."
--NEWSDAY "A storyteller of the first order in any idiom."
--VANITY FAIR "Through works rich in nuance--now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous--Mahfouz has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind."
--The Swedish Academy, upon awarding Mahfouz the Nobel Prize in Literature