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Sugar Street
  • Published: 1 November 1994
  • ISBN: 9780552995825
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $26.99
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Sugar Street

From the Nobel Prizewinning author

  • Naguib Mahfouz
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Paperback
1 Nov 1994
EBook
15 June 2016
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The final volume in the celebrated Cairo Trilogy.

THE ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER BY THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR.
'A masterpiece' - The Times
'The Arab Tolstoy' - Simon Sebag Montefiore
Sugar Street, the climactic final book in the classic Cairo Trilogy, is the captivating story of a family struggling to change with the rise of modern Egypt. As Cairo shrugs off the final vestiges of colonialism, Ahmad Al Jawad has lost his power and surveys the world from a latticed balcony. Unable to control his family's destiny, he watches helplessly as his dynasty and the traditions he holds dear disintegrate before his eyes.

But through Ahamd's three grandsons we see modern how Egypt takes shape. One grandson is a communist activist, another a Muslim fundamentalist, both working for what they believe will be a better world. And Ridwan, the inheritor of his father's charms, launches a political career aided by a homosexual affair with prominent politician.

A vivid portrait of a family and a country in a time of upheaval, the Cairo Trilogy is the greatest and best loved work by the 20th century's most important Arab novelist.
  • Published: 1 November 1994
  • ISBN: 9780552995825
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $26.99
Categories:

Praise for Sugar Street

The Cairo Trilogy has made its mark on Anglo-American literary tastes because of its unusual grandeur, a technically "Good Read" - recalling Dickens, Flaubert, Zola, even Galsworthy - which still engages the dynamic society of Egypt in the first half of the century

Glasgow Herald

His masterpiece

The Sunday Times

Mahfouz's scope is vast and his concerns are not only still evident today, but crucial

The Scotsman

Proust, Tolstoy and Balzac are the names most frequently flung around in company with that of Mahfouz...I thought of Galsworthy, reading Sugar Street

Spectator

Sugar Street is a marvellous novel, with many messages, open and concealed, for those who will be instructed

The Times Literary Supplement

Naguib Mahfouz's CAIRO TRILOGY puts all contemporary writers in the shade. He is the Arab Tolstoy.

Simon Sebag Montefiore, Twitter

Mahfouz's sequence telescopes a family chronicle into an unparalleled picture of Egypt under the British Protectorate

The Times