Original title ملحمة الحرافيش Publication date 1977 Media type Print (Paperback) Translator Catherine Cobham Published in english April 1994 | Language Arabic Published in English April 1994 Originally published 1977 Genre Novel Country Egypt | |
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Publisher Maktabat Misr (1977 arabic)
Doubleday (Eng. trans.) Similar Naguib Mahfouz books, Novels | ||
The Harafish (Arabic: الحرافيش) (in orig. Arabic Malhamat al-harafish) is a novel written by Naguib Mahfouz. It comprises a series of episodes in a dozen generations of a family from the Egyptian urban rabble (the "harafish"). Many of the members of this family become clan chiefs in an alley in the city; some of them are benefactors to the other members of the harafish; some are more corrupt. Neither the location within Egypt nor the time of the events is ever identified.
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The Harafish Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA