false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165522545m/5488.jpg 5488 4 (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)<br><br>Naguib Mahfouz&#8217;s magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize&#8212;winning writer&#8217;s masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain&#8217;s occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century. <br><br>The novels of <i>The Cairo Trilogy</i> 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. <i>Palace Walk</i> introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sons&#8211;the tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolute hedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching intellectual Kamal. Al-Sayyid Ahmad&#8217;s rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination in <i>Palace of Desire</i>, as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s. <i>Sugar Street</i> brings Mahfouz&#8217;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. <br><br>Throughout the trilogy, the family&#8217;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, <i>The Cairo Trilogy</i> is the achievement of a master storyteller. 58820 book 1993 The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk; Palace of Desire; Sugar Street total:495|5:279|4:156|3:53|2:7|1:0| 495 2192 912 72 5 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 02:44:54 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 02:46:06 -0700 2007
The Palace Walk is the best novel I have read in years. In the translation published by the Everyman Library the Cairo Trilogy is funny, biting and tragic with precise descriptions and deeply thought out characters. Though I...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 11 06:53:44 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 10:05:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false true Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 12:31:56 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 02:43:15 -0800 2009 But I can not help it. Everything that I love and hate about Egyptian Culture is told beautifully in this somewhat "daytime soap" drama. ...more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Aug 28 08:03:13 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 28 08:06:47 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jul 11 18:53:20 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 18:53:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Mon Feb 09 14:24:24 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 19:24:10 -0800 2009
A charming and touching series about an urban Egyptian family, beginning around 1910(?) a...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Dec 03 18:51:07 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 03 19:06:24 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 29 09:28:19 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 09:29:40 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Feb 16 02:01:55 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 02:02:06 -0800 2009
Palace Walk was originally published in Arabic 1956 under the title Bayn-al-Qasrayn.
Palace of Desire was originally published in Arabic 1957 under the title Qasr al-Shawq.
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I just finally finished this book- the entire...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5488