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.
Define Out Of 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 Out Of Books The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)
Ratings: 4.46 From 3817 Users | 301 ReviewsEvaluate Out Of Books The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)
This trilogy narrates the rise and fall of the family of al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, a tyrannical hypocrite who oppresses his wife, terrorizes his children and leads a life of debauchery on the sly. Although he may be the ruler of the family, the one who enables it to function from day to day is his hard-working, slavishly docile and incredibly submissive wife, Amina. His wife and children use different strategies to wriggle out from beneath the iron fist of their husband and father, not allThis 1,313-page novel by Naguib Mafouz who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988 is seemingly formidable but in fact it is highly readable since the team of four scholars have translated so beautifully that we readers can read on and on without any regrets due to our ignorance of its Arabian original version.
Wow. Over the half of a year that I've read these three books this family has become part of me, through their humanity and their flaws.
This is the first time, reading Naguib Mahfouz, that I was really able to understand how women could live in the world of the cloistered family harim--what they knew and didn't know, how they thought about their lives. These books are a miracle, a bridge into an utterly foreign way of life. What a writer, elegant prose, very well translated, so vivid and sensuous and clearly visualized.
My book club read Naguib Mahfouz's works for a whole year -- in fact,the year before 9/11. I am grateful to Mahfouz for introducing me through to literature into Arab and Muslim culture. The Palace Trilogy are the three most important books I've read in the past ten years. It sounds corny, but I could barely put them down.
*spoilers*Im embarrassed that I only recently heard of Naguib Mahfouz. I have no excuse, and my missing him until now is only further proof that there are too many books waiting to be discovered in this world. Whatever the case, I am thankful to have discovered another fantastic novelist, who opens up for me new cultural and historical vistas and perspectives. As Ive been learning more about the Arab world recently, reading Mahfouz is a very pleasant way of tying together some of the details Im
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 of
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