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Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize-winning writer's masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain's occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century.
The novels of THE CAIRO TRILOGY trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle. oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daugh- ters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sons- the tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolute hedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching intel- lectual Kamal. Al-Sayyid Ahmad's rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domi- nation in Palace of Desire, as the world around them opens to the currents of moder- nity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s. Sugar Street brings Mahfouz's vivid tapestry of an evolving Egypt to a dramatic climax as the aging patriarch sees one grandson become a Communist, one a Muslim fundamentalist, and one the lover of a powerful politician.
Throughout the trilogy, the family's trials mirror those of their turbulent country during the years spanning the two World Wars, as change comes to a society that has resisted it for centuries. Filled with compelling drama, earthy humor, and remarkable insight. THE CAIRO TRILOGY is the achievement of a master storyteller.
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The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street
2001, Everyman's Library
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The Cairo trilogy: Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street
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