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| Title | : | The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3) |
| Author | : | Naguib Mahfouz |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Everyman's Library |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1313 pages |
| Published | : | October 16th 2001 by Everyman's Library (first published 1957) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Northern Africa. Egypt. Classics. Cultural. Africa. Literature |
Naguib Mahfouz
Hardcover | Pages: 1313 pages Rating: 4.46 | 3817 Users | 301 Reviews
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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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| Original Title: | ثلاثية القاهرة: بين القصرين، قصر الشوق، السكرية |
| ISBN: | 0375413316 (ISBN13: 9780375413315) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Cairo Trilogy #1-3 |
| Setting: | Cairo(Egypt) |
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Ratings: 4.46 From 3817 Users | 301 ReviewsAppraise Of Books The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)
This is the first time, reading Naguib Mahfouz, that I was really able to understand how women could live in the world of the cloistered family harim--what they knew and didn't know, how they thought about their lives. These books are a miracle, a bridge into an utterly foreign way of life. What a writer, elegant prose, very well translated, so vivid and sensuous and clearly visualized.I audibly huff while reading this book. It also was pointed out to me by my husband that I said "Arg" like a pirate a few times as well. But I can not help it. Everything that I love and hate about Egyptian Culture is told beautifully in this somewhat "daytime soap" drama. I call it soap because my american view point see's it that way, and yet the story he tells is not so far fetched as that some of my own neighbors are living out very similiar dramas.I am not finished with this Magnus Opus of
I was in thrall to this epic trilogy all last summer. The story of a traditional Egyptian family in Cairo against the political and social upheavals of the late teens, 20s and 30s. I can't begin to summarize quickly why it's fascinating, because it is so on many levels. To pick a few: It's a view of a culture so different from mine as to seem another planet, yet I can relate to every character. Just seeing into a traditional Muslim household is fascinating: the women virtually never leave the
Wonderful! painful to see that Egyptian life continues to repeat old patterns, through the later 20th century...and on into the 21st. For me, this trilogy epitomizes what I look for and, in fact crave, in historical fiction. Nahfouz has placed people within families and families within their own parts of society in Cairo during three distinct times during the first half of the 20th century. He has embroiled them in social, religious and political events, as passive and active participants. So
In a way this is a deeply familiar story despite it's colonial Egyptian setting. If you've ever sniffed a nineteenth century family saga, particularly one that stretched into the twentieth century flavoured by the author's progress from boy to writer then you know, emotionally, what to expect, overbearing hypocritical patriarch, meek housebound wife, youngest son en-route via teaching to become an author, add mid novel stone throwing and protests at occupying British, stir occasionally on a low
My book club read Naguib Mahfouz's works for a whole year -- in fact,the year before 9/11. I am grateful to Mahfouz for introducing me through to literature into Arab and Muslim culture. The Palace Trilogy are the three most important books I've read in the past ten years. It sounds corny, but I could barely put them down.
I'd love to give this less stars, but I can't. I absolutely hated the father of the family, I think I never hated a character in a book that much. At some point I even threw the book against a wall, which just isn't me. However, that's a sign that the story has completely caught you, and that the book is great.
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