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

“Each of us will go his own way, but first I want to tell you bluntly what I think of you. I don’t deny it was my idea to pursue you – perhaps because the soul occasionally feels a desperate craving for filthy things.