Sugar Street
Story of the family of al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad moving into the middle of the twentieth century while the seeds of contemporary Egypt are sown.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Arabic |
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New York :
Anchor Books,
2011, c1992.
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| Edition: | 2nd Anchor Books ed. |
| Series: | Mahfouz, Naguib, 1911-2006. Cairo trilogy ;
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| Summary: | Story of the family of al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad moving into the middle of the twentieth century while the seeds of contemporary Egypt are sown. |
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| Item Description: | Translation of: al-Sukkarīyah. |
| Physical Description: | 331 p. ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780307947123 0307947122 |
| Author Notes: | Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. His nearly forty novels and hundreds of short stories range from re-imaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. Of his many works, most famous is The Cairo Trilogy, consisting of Palace Walk (1956), Palace of Desire (1957), and Sugar Street (1957), which focuses on a Cairo family through three generations, from 1917 until 1952. In 1988, he was the first writer in Arabic to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in August 2006. |
