From the Bookshelf of World Library Top 100 Books of All Time…

Children of Gebelaawi

Naguib Mahfouz

Find A Copy At

Libraries

Group Discussions About This Book

No group discussions for this book yet.

What Members Thought

Dec 15, 2018 Valerie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: nobel-laureates, top-100

I wish I had been better acquainted with the Islamic versions of these stories before I read this. I can't tell what is the traditionally Islamic take on these tales that are well known to me from the Old Testament, and what is Mahfouz's own twist.

Anyway, I liked this, although it could have been a little more complex and less frank. I see why it got him stabbed in the neck, although I personally found it mostly innocuous. I'd like to read the Cairo Trilogy sometime.

PS- I actually read the older ...more

Like · see review