The Cairo Trilogy (Complete in One Volume) consisting of Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street
Naguib Mahfouz; Sabry Hafez, Introduction; William Maynard Hutchins, Olive E. Kenny, Lorne M. Kenny, and Angele Botros Samaan, Translators
Language: English
Published by Everyman's Library, published by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 2001
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Everyman's Library, published by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 2001. "Second [2nd] printing" (stated) of this First (1st) Edition Thus (with Introduction by Sabry Hafez, Select Bibliography and Chronology). As New in an As New Dust Jacket. Unread. The Text Block is clean, bright white, tight, straight and square with no markings of any kind. The Binding is full red cloth, color uniform throughout, with bright gilt title, etc., in a black box to the spine, unmarked endpapers bearing publisher's monochrome design, and all corners square and sharp, and with a gold-braided page marker affixed to the head-band. The Dust Jacket is bright, colors uniform throughout, and fully intact with the original prices (USA $30.00 Canada $45.00) intact on the front flap. See the photos. xliii, 1313, [ii] pages. 5 3/4" x 8 3/8" x 2 1/4". The trilogy follows the lives of the family patriarch Ahmad 'Abd al-Jawad and his family across three generations, in Cairo, Egypt, from 1919, the year of Egyptian Revolution against the British rule in Egypt, to almost the end of the Second World War in 1944. The three novels' Arabic titles are taken from the names of actual streets in Cairo, where major characters in the novels live. The three novels represent three eras of socio-political life, from religious conservative to Marxist radicalism. Palace Walk was first published in Arabic ( Bayn al-Qasrayn) in 1956; Palace of Desire ( Qasr al-Shawq), in 1957; and Sugar Street (Al-Sukkariyya), in 1957. The English translations were first published by Doubleday in 1990, 1991, and 1992, respectively. Palace Walk was translated by William M. Hutchins and Olive Kenny; Palace of Desire by Hutchins, Olive Kenny and Lorne Kenny; and Sugar Street by Hutchins, Olive Kenny and Angele Botros Samaan. The translations were overseen by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, an editor at Doubleday at the time, and Martha Levin. NOTE: this is a heavy book, weighing 1,188 grams / 42.0 ounces, and will require extra postage for international shipment. ISBN 10: 0375413316 / ISBN 13: 9780375413315.…
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- Title
- The Cairo Trilogy (Complete in One Volume) consisting of Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street
- Author
- Naguib Mahfouz; Sabry Hafez, Introduction; William Maynard Hutchins, Olive E. Kenny, Lorne M. Kenny, and Angele Botros Samaan, Translators
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library, published by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0375413316
- ISBN 13
- 9780375413315
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Printing
- 2nd Printing
- Item weight
- 42 ounces
- Dimensions
- 5.75 inches width by 8.375 inches height by 2.25 inches depth
- Seller catalogs
- General Fiction, World History
The masterwork of the Nobel Prize-winning author, the three 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 extends our knowledge of life; it also confirms it" (The Boston Globe).
Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
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