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

Yes, at last he had…after a long period of anxiety and apprehension, when he was torn between the ascetic skepticism of Abu al-Ala al-Ma’arri and the more hedonistic version of Umar al-Khayyam. He