{"product_id":"the-cairo-trilogy-palace-walk-palace-of-desire-sugar-street-everymans-library","title":"The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk  Palace of Desire  Sugar Street (Everyman's Library)","description":"\u003cp\u003eNobel Prizewinner Naguib Mahfouzs magnificent epic trilogy of colonial EgyptPalace Walk  Palace of Desire  and Sugar Streettogether for the first time in one beautiful hardcover volume.  The masterwork of the Nobel Prize-winning author  the three novels of The Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad  who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle  oppressed wife  Amina  his cloistered daughters  Aisha and Khadija  and his three sonsthe tragic and idealistic Fahmy  the dissolute hedonist Yasin  and the soul-searching intellectual Kamal. Al-Sayyid Ahmads rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination in Palace of Desire  as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s. Sugar Street brings Mahfouzs vivid tapestry of an evolving Egypt to a dramatic climax as the aging patriarch sees one grandson become a communist  one a Muslim fundamentalist  and one the lover of a powerful politician.  Throughout the trilogy  the familys trials mirror those of their turbulent country during the years spanning the two World Wars  as change comes to a society that has resisted it for centuries. Filled with compelling drama  earthy humor  and remarkable insight  The Cairo Trilogy extends our knowledge of life; it also confirms it (The Boston Globe).  Everymans Library pursues the highest production standards  printing on acid-free cream-colored paper  with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping  decorative endpapers  silk ribbon markers  European-style half-round spines  and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction  a select bibliography  and a chronology of the authors life and times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945258348597,"sku":"ByrdShop_0375413316","price":43.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780375413315_588207b2-c945-4329-b540-52e506d753ab.jpg?v=1770142035","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-cairo-trilogy-palace-walk-palace-of-desire-sugar-street-everymans-library","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}