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First Published in 1956, this is a powerful Portrayal of a middle-class Egyptian family confronted by Material, moral, and spiritual problems during World War II.
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Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. His nearly forty novels and hundreds of short stories range from re-imaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. Of his many works, most famous is The Cairo Trilogy, consisting of Palace Walk (1956), Palace of Desire (1957), and Sugar Street (1957), which focuses on a Cairo family through three generations, from 1917 until 1952. In 1988, he was the first writer in Arabic to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in August 2006.
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- PublisherDoubleday
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0385264577
- ISBN 13 9780385264570
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages412
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