The Cairo Trilogy

Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street; Introduction by Sabry Hafez

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Naguib Mahfouz

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: WZDN24Q

EAN: 9780375413315

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Beschreibung

Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt—Palace Walk. , Palace of Desire. , and Sugar Street. —together for the first time in one beautiful hardcover volume. The masterwork of the Nobel Prize-winning author, the three 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. extends our knowledge of life; it also confirms it” (The Boston Globe. ). Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Naguib Mahfouz
William H Maynard

Erscheinungsjahr

2001

Format

Buch (Hardcover)

Anzahl Seiten

1368