by Naguib Mahfouz · Black Swan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552995825
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«Sugar Street» is the novel by Naguib Mahfouz, published by Black Swan in paperback (320 pages, in English).
«Sugar Street» follows the family of Ahmad Al Jawad as the patriarch, now elderly, watches from his balcony as his dynasty and traditions crumble. Through his three grandsons (a communist activist, a Muslim fundamentalist, and a young politician), it portrays the formation of modern Egypt as Cairo liberates itself from colonialism.
«Sugar Street» is the third and final instalment of the Cairo Trilogy. Naguib Mahfouz received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988.
For readers of literary fiction, family sagas, and stories about twentieth-century Egypt.
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".
