Respected Sir, Wedding Song, the Search

A new volume of three novels–previously published separately by Anchor–by Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Together with **The Beggar, The Thief and The Dogs, and Autumn Quail* ***(published by Anchor in December 2000), these novels represent a comprehensive collection of Mahfouz’s artful meditations on post-revolution Egypt. Diverse in style and narrative technique, they render a nuanced and universally resonant vision of modern life in the Middle East.

**Respected Sir**, “a latter-day **Bleak House*** *in Arabic” (*The New York Times*), revisits a familiar theme–vaulting ambition–in a powerful and religious metaphor. **Wedding Song***,* “one of Mahfouz’s most enjoyable works” (*The Chicago Tribune*), is a psychological drama, focusing on how four very different kinds of minds apprehend and reckon with the realities that surround them. *The Search* is a powerful, lurid, and compelling story of lust, greed, and murder.