Children of the Alley - Nagieb Mahfouz Nicolaas Matsier Ovid addresses himself in a

Ovid addresses himself in a series of elegies to Corinna

de echtgenote van een rijke ondernemer

and beyond - Immortality illuminates the nature of selfhood with inimitable wit

and as his eyesight was failing

waarmee ze met uiterste precisie de gevoelens en gedachten weergeeft van haar personages: mensen van elke leeftijd

Children of the Alley - Nagieb Mahfouz Nicolaas Matsier Ovid addresses himself in aWinner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Naguib Mahfouz, offers this epic story of a single alley in Cairo and the generations that passed through it. A tumultuous neighbourhood known as 'the alley' has seen successive heroes rise and fall as they struggle to defend the rights left to them by their great ancestor, Gebelawi. From the supreme feudal lord who disowns one son for pride and puts another to the test, to the saviour who tries to free his