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Subject·Arab world✕clear
Fiction · Allegory

Children of the Alley

Naguib Mahfouz
1959 · 448 pages

One Cairo alley holds human history entire. Its founder withdraws into a great house, and each generation raises a redeemer, Adam then Moses then Jesus then Muhammad, defeated by the same protection racket.

★ 6.9