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An everyday story of Cairo folk Caroline Moore commends this trilogy by Egypt's Nobel Prize-winning novelist for its insights into Muslim life but, above all, for the story itself
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The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street
by Naguib Mahfouz
Everyman's Library, pounds 20, 1,313 pp
pounds 18.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222
THIS MAGNIFICENT trilogy is an Egyptian Buddenbrooks or Forsyte
Saga: a huge, rich novel, chronicling shifting attitudes across three
generations of a prosperous middle-class merchant-family between 1917
and 1944.
It is monumental, magisterial, the record of an era; it offers,
for a Western Ch...
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Last Act of the Cairo Trilogy
The Washington Post
; SUGAR STREET The Cairo Trilogy II By Naguib Mahfouz Translated from the Arabic by William Maynard Hutchins and Angele Botros Samaan Doubleday. 308 pp. $22.50 MIDAQ ALLEY By Naguib Mahfouz Translated from the Arabic by Trevor Le Gassick Doubleday. 286 pp. Paper, $8.50 WITH the simultaneous
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TIMELESS RHYTHMS OF AN EGYPTIAN FAMILY
The Boston Globe
; PALACE WALK By Naguib Mahfouz Doubleday, 498 pages, $22.95 When the Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize in 1988, a university press was selling about 200 English-language copies of his books a year. After the award no less a personage than Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis acquired the
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Palace Walk
Special Warfare
; By Naguib Mahfouz. New York: Anchor Books, 1991. ISBN 0-385-26466-6 (paperback). 498 pages. $14. Palace Walk (Bayn al-qasrayn in Arabic) is the 1990 English translation of a 1956 work by Naguib Mahfouz. It is the foremost of more than 30 novels written by Mahfouz, who was born in Cairo in 1911 and
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Mahfouz's rich `Cairo Trilogy' concludes
The Boston Globe
; SUGAR STREET By Naguib Mahfouz Doubleday, 320 pp., $22.50 With "Sugar Street," Naguib Mahfouz completed his 1,200-page "Cairo Trilogy," the work that established and confirmed his reputation as the first and finest novelist in the Arabic world. "Sugar Street" was published in 1957, when its author
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Naguib Mahfouz.(AUTHOR PROFILE)(Biography)
World Literature Today
; NAGUIB MAHFOUZ was born December 11, i911, in Cairo, Egypt, the youngest of seven children born to a middle-class Egyptian civil service family. After graduating from Cairo University in 1934, Mahfouz worked as a journalist for a number of local publications. At twenty-eight he published Abath
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