#3 The Cairo Trilogy

Sugar Street

Naguib Mahfouz
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Sugar Street is the third and concluding volume of the celebrated Cairo Trilogy, which brings the story of Al-Sayid Ahmad and his family up to the middle of the twentieth century. Aging and ill, the family patriarch surveys the world from his housewares's latticed balcony, as his long-suffering wife once did. While his children face middle age, it is through his grandsons that we see a modern Egypt emerging.
Genres: FictionEgyptHistorical FictionNovelsClassicsLiteratureMiddle EastAfricaNobel Prize20th Century
320 Pages

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