by Naguib Mahfouz · Anchor Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780385264709
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«Sugar Street» is the novel that closes Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy, published by Anchor Books in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Final instalment of the Cairo Trilogy, centred on the fortunes of the Abd al-Jawad clan and their descendants. The action takes place in urban Egypt of the 1930s, as family tensions intertwine with the country's political and social changes. Mahfouz combines psychological portraiture of his characters with the chronicle of a city and an era, thus closing the narrative arc begun in «Palace Walk» and continued in «Palace of Desire».
Third and final part of the Cairo Trilogy. Originally published in Arabic in 1957; English translation by William Maynard Hutchins and Angele Botros Samaan.
Recommended for those who have already read the first two volumes of the trilogy and for readers of historical fiction and family sagas.
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described him as a writer "who, through works rich in nuance – now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous – has formed an Egyptian narrative art that applies to all mankind".
