Name: Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy) (in English)
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Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
ISBN: 9780307947123

portada Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy) (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Naguib Mahfouz

Publisher

Anchor Books

Topic

sagas ; literary ; urban life

Year

2011

Language

English

Pages

331

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.2 x 13.5 x 1.9 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN13

9780307947123

Edition No.

Synopsis "Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy) (in English)"

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