num_pages: 210
description: Naguib Mahfouz's kaleidoscopic novel is set in Cairo during the 1920s. The narrator tells tales of the street - of separated lovers, childhood games, workers, neighbours, loneliness. In his alley, his small slice of Egypt, he finds the excitement and harshness of Cairo at the one end, and the withdrawn but beautiful world of the sanctuary at the other.
language: English
title: Fountain and Tomb
titlecomplete: Fountain and Tomb
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Egyptian Literature, Classics, Novels, Nobel Prize, Fiction, Short Stories, Africa, Egypt
ratings_count: 3548
places: Egypt
publisher: Passeggiata Pr