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Sugar Street: The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 3
Sugar Street The Cairo Trilogy Volume 3 Author:Naguib Mahfouz 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 li... more »ving 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« less