Naguib Mahfouz

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Can anyone recommend one of his books (preferably one that doesn't require knowledge of the Prophets of Islam)?

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
>Sent: Aug 30, 2006 8:13 PM
>To: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Naguib Mahfouz
>
>Naguib Mahfouz, who became the first Arab writer to win the Nobel
>Prize in Literature for his novels depicting modern Egyptian life in
>his beloved, millennium-old corner of Islamic Cairo, died Wednesday,
>his doctor said. He was 94.
>
>http://apnews.myway.com//article/20060830/D8JQP0S80.html
>(good article)
>
>Bekah
>