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Sugar Street, the climactic conclusion to Mafhouz?s masterpiece trilogy, is the captivating portrait 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.\n\nBut 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.Table of Contents
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\`,\`His masterpiece\`,\`Mahfouz\`s scope is vast and his concerns are not only still evident today, but crucial\`,\`Proust, Tolstoy and Balzac are the names most frequently flung around in company with that of Mahfouz?I thought of Galsworthy, reading Sugar Street\`,\`Sugar Street is a marvellous novel, with many messages, open and concealed, for those who will be instructed\`,\`Mahfouz\`s sequence telescopes a family chronicle into an unparalleled picture of Egypt under the British Protectorate\` ISBN - 9780552995825
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Pages : 320
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