The second volume in the celebrated Cairo Trilogy.
Naguib Mahfouz was most prominent literary figure in the Arab world of the Twentieth Century, best known for his Cairo Trilogy (Palace Walk, Palace of Desire and Sugar Walk), which became an international bestseller. He was born in Cairo in 1911 and lived in the suburb of Agouza with his wife and two daughters for the rest of his life. He published more than thirty novels as well as many collections of short stories, plays and screenplays. In 1988, Mr Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first Arab writer to win it. In 1994, after the publication of a novel that led him into trouble with Egypt's religious authorities, an attempt was made on his life, but he died peacefully in 2006, aged 94.
A masterpiece
*The Times*
A magnificent, Tolstoyan saga... unmissable
*Cosmopolitan*
Shamelessly entertaining
*Guardian*
Naguib Mahfouz's CAIRO TRILOGY puts all contemporary writers in the
shade. He is the Arab Tolstoy
*Twitter*
An engrossing work, whose author can take his place alongside any
European master you care to name
*The Sunday Times*
Teeming with life and contention... it promises riches
*Independent*
Brilliantly combines the secret vocabulary of Islamic metaphysics
with the techniques of the Egyptian novel
*Times Literary Supplement*
Al-Sayyid Ahmad is mellowing as he leaves middle age. As this second novel of ``The Cairo Trilogy'' opens, he is ending his self-imposed abstention from liquor and women, begun five years earlier upon the death of his son, Fahmy. With shouts of joy, his friends welcome him back to their nightly revels, and al-Sayyid Ahmad promtly begins a new love affair. Meanwhile, his children are struggling with life beyond their father's domination. Yasin is twice divorced and incapable of resisting any woman. The two married daughters are split by an open feud. And Kamal, the intellectual center of this novel, enters college, where he suffers the three furies of religion, science, and romance. Through all these avenues, Mahfouz pursues his fascinating examination of Cairo's Islamic culture as it opens to modern influences. This novel continues the outstanding quality of this trilogy, leaving readers anxious for the final volume.--Paul E. Hutchison, Pequea, Pa.
A masterpiece * The Times *
A magnificent, Tolstoyan saga... unmissable * Cosmopolitan *
Shamelessly entertaining * Guardian *
Naguib Mahfouz's CAIRO TRILOGY puts all contemporary writers in the
shade. He is the Arab Tolstoy -- Simon Sebag Montefiore * Twitter
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An engrossing work, whose author can take his place alongside any
European master you care to name * The Sunday Times *
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