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Book Title
Cairo Trilogy : Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street; Introduction by Sabry Hafez
Publication Name
The Cairo Trilogy
Title
The Cairo Trilogy
Subtitle
Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street; Introduction by Sabr
Author
Naguib Mahfouz
Translator
William H. Maynard
Contributor
William H. Maynard (Translated by)
Format
Hardcover
ISBN-10
0375413316
EAN
9780375413315
ISBN
9780375413315
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Genre
Fiction
Release Date
16/10/2001
Release Year
2001
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
2.4in
Item Length
8.3in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
40.9 Oz
Series
Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
Original Language
Arabic
Publication Year
2001
Topic
Sagas, Family Life, Literary, Historical
Number of Pages
1368 Pages

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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 daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sons-the tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolute hedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching intellectual Kamal. Al-Sayyid Ahmad's rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination in Palace of Desire , as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity 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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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375413316
ISBN-13
9780375413315
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1939666

Product Key Features

Book Title
Cairo Trilogy : Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street; Introduction by Sabry Hafez
Author
Naguib Mahfouz
Original Language
Arabic
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Sagas, Family Life, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
1368 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
2.4in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
40.9 Oz

Additional Product Features

Number of Volumes
3 Vols.
Lc Classification Number
Pj7846.A46c35 2001
Reviews
"The highest achievement ofThe Cairo Trilogy[is] the creation of memorable characters whose circumstances of life are unimaginably remote from our own, but whose aspirations are the same.The Cairo Trilogyextends our knowledge of life; it also confirms it." Boston Globe "Luminous…All the magic, mystery and suffering of Egypt in the 1920s are conveyed on a human scale." New York Times Book Review "The alleys, the houses, the palaces and mosques and the people who live among them are evoked as vividly as the streets of London were conjured up by Dickens." Newsweek "A masterful kaleidoscope of emotions, ideas and perspective. Mahfouz has captured a family and its homeland at one gloriously varied moment in a cycle." Newsday "Mahfouz presents us with a different concept of the world and makes it real. His genius is not just that he shows us Egyptian colonial society in all its complexity; it is that he makes us look through the vision of his vivid characters and see people and ideas that no longer seem alien." Philadelphia Inquirer, "The highest achievement of The Cairo Trilogy [is] the creation of memorable characters whose circumstances of life are unimaginably remote from our own, but whose aspirations are the same. The Cairo Trilogy extends our knowledge of life; it also confirms it." Boston Globe "Luminous…All the magic, mystery and suffering of Egypt in the 1920s are conveyed on a human scale." New York Times Book Review "The alleys, the houses, the palaces and mosques and the people who live among them are evoked as vividly as the streets of London were conjured up by Dickens." Newsweek "A masterful kaleidoscope of emotions, ideas and perspective. Mahfouz has captured a family and its homeland at one gloriously varied moment in a cycle." Newsday "Mahfouz presents us with a different concept of the world and makes it real. His genius is not just that he shows us Egyptian colonial society in all its complexity; it is that he makes us look through the vision of his vivid characters and see people and ideas that no longer seem alien." Philadelphia Inquirer
Copyright Date
2001
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2001-277061
Dewey Decimal
892.7/36
Series
Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Dewey Edition
21

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