Naguib Mahfouz and The Black Cat Tavern are portraits of life drawn with the precision of someone who knows the secrets of the soul, embroidered with the imagination of a novelist who gives stories a sense of suspense, and written with a style that is convincing to the point of certainty. The novelist never strayed far from the truth, but rather explored the depths of the Egyptian street, residing in its popular heartland, capturing fragments and selecting perspectives from which the reader gazes eagerly, devouring the lines and pages, continuing along the paths of these stories, vividly embodied by Naguib Mahfouz’s letters.
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