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Sugar Street (Cairo Trilogy #3)

by Naguib Mahfouz

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Awards

Winner 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature
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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Master storyteller Naguib Mahfouz crowns his best-selling Cairo Trilogy with this final chronicle of the Abdal-Jawad  clan, climaxing the story begun in Palace Walk and continued in Palace Of Desire.

Review:

"Sugar Street is a resonant tour de force, a superbly written novel. One of the most enjoyable books of recent memory." St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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"Mahfouz presents us with a different concept of the world and makes it real. His genius is not just that he shows us Egyptian colonial society in all its complexity; it is that he makes us look through the vision of his vivid characters and see people and ideas that no longer seem so alien." Philadelphia Inquirer

Review:

"Mr. Mahfouz's characters blaze with intensity, his Egypt pulsates with unresolved tensions." Atlanta Constitution

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"Throughouth Naguib Mahfouz's fiction there is a pervasive sense of metaphor, of a literary artist who is using his fiction to speak directly and unequivocally to the condition of his country. His work is imbued with love for Egypt and its people, but it is also utterly honest and unsentimental." Washington Post Book World

Review:

"A masterful kaleidoscope of emotions, ideas and perspective. Mahfouz has captured a family and its homeland at one gloriously varied moment in a cycle." Newsday
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About the Author

Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. A student of philosophy and an avid reader, he has been influenced by many Western writers, including Flaubert, Balzac, Zola, Camus, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and, above all, Proust. He has more than thirty novels to his credit, ranging from his earliest historical romances to his most recent experimental novels. In 1988, Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He lives in the Cairo suburb of Agouza.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780385264709
Author:
Mahfouz, Naguib
Publisher:
Anchor
Translator:
Hutchins, William M.
Author:
Mahfouz, Naguib
Author:
Mahfuz, Najib
Author:
Hutchins, William M.
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Historical
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Historical - General
Subject:
Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works
Subject:
Cairo (Egypt)
Subject:
Cairo
Subject:
Cairo (Egypt) Fiction.
Subject:
General Social Science
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Copyright:
1957
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series:
Cairo Trilogy
Series Volume:
0003
Publication Date:
19921215
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
320
Dimensions:
9.2 x 6 x .65 in .75 lb
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Product details 320 pages Anchor Books/Doubleday - English 9780385264709 Reviews:
"Review" by , "Sugar Street is a resonant tour de force, a superbly written novel. One of the most enjoyable books of recent memory."
"Review" by , "Mahfouz presents us with a different concept of the world and makes it real. His genius is not just that he shows us Egyptian colonial society in all its complexity; it is that he makes us look through the vision of his vivid characters and see people and ideas that no longer seem so alien."
"Review" by , "Mr. Mahfouz's characters blaze with intensity, his Egypt pulsates with unresolved tensions."
"Review" by , "Throughouth Naguib Mahfouz's fiction there is a pervasive sense of metaphor, of a literary artist who is using his fiction to speak directly and unequivocally to the condition of his country. His work is imbued with love for Egypt and its people, but it is also utterly honest and unsentimental."
"Review" by , "A masterful kaleidoscope of emotions, ideas and perspective. Mahfouz has captured a family and its homeland at one gloriously varied moment in a cycle."
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