The Cairo Trilogy Series by Naguib Mahfouz

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  • Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy #1)
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    Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy #1)

    Naguib Mahfouz, Naguib Mahfouz

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1956

    This is a sweeping and evocative portrait of both a family and a country struggling to move toward independence in a society that has resisted change for centuries. Set against the backdrop of Britain's occupation of Egypt immediately after World War I, Palace Walk introduces us to the Al Jawad family. Ahmad, a middle-class shopkeeper runs his household strictly according to the Qur'an while at night he explores the pleasures of Cairo... more

  • Palace of Desire (The Cairo Trilogy #2)
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    Palace of Desire (The Cairo Trilogy #2)

    Naguib Mahfouz

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 1957

    The sensual and provocative second volume in the Cairo Trilogy, Palace Of Desire follows the Al Jawad family into the awakening world of the 1920's and the sometimes violent clash between Islamic ideals, personal dreams and modern realities.Having given up his vices after his son's death, ageing patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad pursues an arousing lute-player - only to find she has married his eldest son... more

  • Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #3)
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    Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #3)

    Naguib Mahfouz, Naguib Mahfouz

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1957

    Sugar Street is the third and concluding volume of the celebrated Cairo Trilogy, which brings the story of Al-Sayid Ahmad and his family up to the middle of the twentieth century.Aging and ill, the family patriarch surveys the world from his housewares's latticed balcony, as his long-suffering wife once did. While his children face middle age, it is through his grandsons that we see a modern Egypt emerging.

  • Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)
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    Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)

    Naguib Mahfouz

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1957

    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... more

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