The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street; Introduction by Sabry Hafez (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series Book 248)

by Naguib Mahfouz

“A girl is really a problem….Don’t you see that we spare no effort to discipline, train, preserve, and care for her? But don’t you also see that after all of this we ourselves hand her over to a stranger and let him do as he wishes with her?