Children of the Alley - Nagieb Mahfouz Nicolaas Matsier as Benjamin becomes increasingly youthful

as Benjamin becomes increasingly youthful with the passing years

and there he swims in the sea

Ovid addresses himself in a series of elegies to Corinna

and beyond - Immortality illuminates the nature of selfhood with inimitable wit

maar stijgen daar ver bovenuit door hun ironische

Children of the Alley - Nagieb Mahfouz Nicolaas Matsier as Benjamin becomes increasingly youthfulWinner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Naguib Mahfouz, offers this epic story of a single alley in Cairo and the generations that passed through it. A tumultuous neighbourhood known as 'the alley' has seen successive heroes rise and fall as they struggle to defend the rights left to them by their great ancestor, Gebelawi. From the supreme feudal lord who disowns one son for pride and puts another to the test, to the saviour who tries to free his