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Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy, 3)
Sugar Street - The Cairo Trilogy, 3
Author: Naguib Mahfouz
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.
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ISBN-13: 9780385264709
ISBN-10: 0385264704
Publication Date: 12/15/1992
Pages: 320
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4 stars, based on 14 ratings
Publisher: Anchor
Book Type: Paperback
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margedriscoll avatar reviewed Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy, 3) on + 8 more book reviews
A remarkable inter generational story by Nobel laureate, Mahfouz set in an Egypt that we would no longer recognize.
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I absolutely loved the first volume (Palace Walk) of Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo trilogy, of which this is the third volume. The writing in this book is just as good (Mahfouz won the Nobel prize for literature.), yet somehow, the characters did not engage my interest the way the ones in the first volume did.

From the back cover:
"...he shows us Egyptian colonial society in all its complexity;...he makes us look through the vision of his vivid characters and see people and ideas that no longer seem so alien."
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reviewers called it "One of the most enjoyable books of recent memory." It just didn't reach those heights for me.


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