New York: Doubleday, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - First Doubleday edition of this early novel by the 1988 Nobel laureate, the first Arab to win this award. Originally published in 1949 in Arabic and translated in 1985 by Ramses Awad for the American University Press in Cairo. In telling the story of one proud - and eventually shattered - Egyptian family, Mahfouz exposes the inequities of the country's society. Introduction by the translator; edited by Mason Rossiter Smith. 412 pp. ISBN: 0-385264577.