Children of the Alley

A beautiful softcover edition in very good condition, first Anchor Books edition, first printing. No creasing to the spine. Boards and pages are clean and unmarked throughout. Children of the Alley by Naguib Mahfouz, translated by Peter Theroux. Anchor Books / Doubleday, New York, 1996. First Anchor Books edition, first printing. Originally published in Arabic as Awlad haratina, Cairo, 1959. Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988. Translated by Peter Theroux, winner of the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award and the Columbia University Translation Center Award. Ships within Canada. International orders welcome through AbeBooks.