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The Magnificent Conman of Cairo: A Novel

By Adel Kamel, Naguib Mahfouz (Foreword by), Waleed Almusharaf (Translator)
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By Adel Kamel, Naguib Mahfouz (Foreword by), Waleed Almusharaf (Translator)
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Available in English for the first time, this rediscovered classic which Naguib Mahfouz called “exceptional," tells a story of fathers and sons, scoundrels and the innocent, set in 1930s Cairo

Khaled, the spoiled idle son of a pasha, meets Mallim, carpenter’s apprentice and son of a scoundrel, when he comes to fix a broken window. In the course of his work, Mallim stumbles across a stash of money and dutifully hands it in. Khaled cooks up an overly elaborate plot to see that his dastardly f...

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