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Follows the Al Jawad family into the awakening world of the 1920's and the sometimes violent clash between Islamic ideals, personal dreams and modern realities. Having given up his vices after his son's death, ageing patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad pursues an arousing lute-player - only to find she has married his eldest son.
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"A masterpiece" (The Times)
"A magnificent, Tolstoyan saga... unmissable" (Cosmopolitan)
"Shamelessly entertaining" (Guardian)
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"A magnificent, Tolstoyan saga... unmissable" (Cosmopolitan)
"Shamelessly entertaining" (Guardian)
"An engrossing work, whose author can take his place alongside any European master you care to name" (The Sunday Times)
"Teeming with life and contention... it promises riches" (Independent)
The second volume in the celebrated Cairo Trilogy.
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- PublisherBlack Swan
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0552995819
- ISBN 13 9780552995818
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages432
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