Sugar Street: The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 3
Sugar Street is the final novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.The novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who...
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Sugar Street is the final novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.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. 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. Filled with compelling drama, earthy humor, and remarkable insight, Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy is the achievement of a master storyteller.Translated by William Maynard Hutchins and Angele Botros Samaan
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307947123 (0307947122)
ASIN: 307947122
Publish date: November 29th 2011
Publisher: Anchor
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Africa,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Nobel Prize,
Egypt,
African Literature,
Egyptian Literature
Series: The Cairo Trilogy (#3)