Naguib Mahfouz
Hardcover | Pages: 1313 pages Rating: 4.46 | 3817 Users | 301 Reviews
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| Original Title: | ثلاثية القاهرة: بين القصرين، قصر الشوق، السكرية |
| ISBN: | 0375413316 (ISBN13: 9780375413315) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Cairo Trilogy #1-3 |
| Setting: | Cairo(Egypt) |
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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. Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sons–the tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolute hedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching intellectual Kamal. Al-Sayyid Ahmad’s rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination in Palace of Desire, as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s. Sugar Street brings Mahfouz’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. Throughout the trilogy, the family'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, The Cairo Trilogy is the achievement of a master storyteller.Identify Epithetical Books The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)
| Title | : | The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3) |
| Author | : | Naguib Mahfouz |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Everyman's Library |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1313 pages |
| Published | : | October 16th 2001 by Everyman's Library (first published 1957) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Northern Africa. Egypt. Classics. Cultural. Africa. Literature |
Rating Epithetical Books The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)
Ratings: 4.46 From 3817 Users | 301 ReviewsWrite-Up Epithetical Books The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)
I audibly huff while reading this book. It also was pointed out to me by my husband that I said "Arg" like a pirate a few times as well. But I can not help it. Everything that I love and hate about Egyptian Culture is told beautifully in this somewhat "daytime soap" drama. I call it soap because my american view point see's it that way, and yet the story he tells is not so far fetched as that some of my own neighbors are living out very similiar dramas.I am not finished with this Magnus Opus ofOriginally written as one massive novel, Mahfouzs publisher would not touch it. It was only by serializing it and breaking it up into three books that we get to marvel at Mahfouzs finest work today. The Everymans Library edition also has an excellent introduction by Hafez.The novel traces three generations of an Egyptian family, coping with its ups and downs, while the country was grappling with political uncertainty.Palace WalkThe first of the three books is set around the time of the first
I was in thrall to this epic trilogy all last summer. The story of a traditional Egyptian family in Cairo against the political and social upheavals of the late teens, 20s and 30s. I can't begin to summarize quickly why it's fascinating, because it is so on many levels. To pick a few: It's a view of a culture so different from mine as to seem another planet, yet I can relate to every character. Just seeing into a traditional Muslim household is fascinating: the women virtually never leave the
I was surprised to find the English translation was edited by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. I liked the first novel best.
Wonderful! painful to see that Egyptian life continues to repeat old patterns, through the later 20th century...and on into the 21st. For me, this trilogy epitomizes what I look for and, in fact crave, in historical fiction. Nahfouz has placed people within families and families within their own parts of society in Cairo during three distinct times during the first half of the 20th century. He has embroiled them in social, religious and political events, as passive and active participants. So
A problem with writing a review of Naguib Mahfouzs This Cairo Trilogy, (Everman Edition) is that I am not sure if I am the intended audience. A fair aspect in judging artistry is the degree to which the work achieves universality. This goal has to be measured against the context from which the author is writing. In this trilogy it is clear we are reading the work of an artist. Not just my opinion, Mafouz is a Nobel Prize winner. He is also one of the founders of modern Arabic Literature. A large
this was my review written for the first volume in this trilogy: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 havent read much of the great western popular novelists of the 19th century (meaning, Balzac, Dickens, etc) I get the impression that Mafouz was heavily influenced by them. This book is descriptive of setting
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