{"product_id":"the-cairo-trilogy-palace-walk-palace-of-desire-sugar-street-9780375413315","title":"The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNaguib 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novels of \u003ci\u003eThe Cairo Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003ePalace Walk\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePalace of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e, as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s. \u003ci\u003eSugar Street\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Cairo Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e is the achievement of a master storyteller.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Everyman's Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/16\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375413315\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 1368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.39h x 5.45w x 2.48d","brand":"Naguib Mahfouz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36636679012508,"sku":"9780375413315","price":42.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_9dc54fa0-ce6d-44e2-9395-69546cdceef9.jpg?v=1603842624","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-cairo-trilogy-palace-walk-palace-of-desire-sugar-street-9780375413315","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}