Question
In one novel set in this city, the narrator ducks into a café as he waits for his watch to be repaired, then recognises that the owner used to be a famous dancer and falls in love with her. In another novel, the drug use of a civil servant who lives on a houseboat in this city causes him to fill out a report with an inkless pen. A man says that “the poet has gone and the radio has come” in a novel set in this city, in which a rogue dentist steals (*) teeth from dead bodies near the title thoroughfare. The infidelity of a pious hypocrite is ignored by his wife Amina in a novel set in this city. Midaq Alley is set in this city, as is a series about the al-Jawad family that includes Palace of Desire, Sugar Street, and Palace Walk. For 10 points, a “Trilogy” about what city was written by native son Naguib Mahfouz? ■END■
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