Sugar Street: v.3 (The Cairo Trilogy) - Hardcover

Mahfouz, Naguib

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9780385269377: Sugar Street: v.3 (The Cairo Trilogy)

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ISBN 10: 0385269374 ISBN 13: 9780385269377

Publisher: Doubleday, 1992

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This is the third part of "The Cairo Trilogy", by the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. It is a true-life Egyptian family saga featuring the bullying, pompous patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmed and his long-suffering family. This book takes the family into the middle of the 20th century.

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Review:

"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's characters blaze with intensity, his Egypt pulsates with unresolved tension." --The Atlanta Constitution
"A resonant tour de force, a superbly written novel. One of the most enjoyable books of recent memory." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"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 so alien." --Philadelphia Inquirer

Book Description:

The final volume in the celebrated Cairo Trilogy.

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