Midaq Alley Book cover type:Pocket the charismatic but brutal animal

the charismatic but brutal animal trainer

Until it becomes clear that someone else knows too

Jenna is tired of being told what she can’t have—and ready to reach for what she wants

unleashing heady new emotions

Midaq Alley Book cover type:Pocket the charismatic but brutal animalWidely acclaimed as Naguib Mahfouz's best novel, Midaq Alley brings to life one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo in the 1940s. From Zaita the cripple maker to Kirsha the hedonistic cafe owner, from Abbas the barber who mistakes greed for love to Hamida who sells her soul to escape the alley, from waiters and widows to politicians, pimps, and poets, the inhabitants of Midaq Alley vividly evoke Egypt's largest city as it teeters on the