Cairo Trilogy Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9781857152487
  • 28 september 2001
  • 1376 pagina's
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Filled with compelling drama, earthy humour and remarkable insight, this book traces 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.



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 ageing 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 humour and remarkable insight, The Cairo Trilogy is the achievement of a master storyteller.

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Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
28 september 2001
Aantal pagina's
1376
Illustraties
Nee

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Hoofdauteur
Naguib, Mahfouz
Tweede Auteur
William M. Hutchins
Hoofduitgeverij
Everyman'S Library

Vertaling

Eerste Vertaler
William H. Maynard
Tweede Vertaler
Olive E. Kenny

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Product breedte
139 mm
Product hoogte
63 mm
Product lengte
213 mm
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Nee
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128 mm
Verpakking hoogte
61 mm
Verpakking lengte
209 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
1358 g

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9781857152487

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    This is one of the most beautiful novels I've ever read. Wonderfully written, very moving, at times funny and outrageously scandalous, highly informative of a changing society, with superb character descriptions. My heart went out to Amina...

    Warning: do NOT read the introduction, as it gives away too much. Just start with the novel straight away.

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