Cairo Trilogy, The: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)

Quality of paper is good also the font size.Binding is really excellent 👌Delivery was initially suggested 10-15 but got in a week in goog packaging.

It is a pleasure to read this book. The author traces the history of Egypt for a span of nearly hundred years.

If are in serius literature then you must read this brilliant book

This is a beautiful book.. one of those that will be near and dear to you the entire time you're reading it.

It was a delightful book to read.

As well as being an excellent read this book has been produced in a quality that I seldom see nowadays.Silky smooth pages add to the pleasure of reading. Being a trilogy in one book, one knows that in your hand there's lots of good reading before the whole story is finished.

La mia recensione è basata sul primo romanzo della trilogia: il primo libro mi è piaciuto, ma ovviamente è una questione personale; la versione in inglese presenta uno stile scorrevole e un lessico ricco, ma non troppo complicato!Questa versione ha una copertina rigida, una presentazione del libro di una 20ina di pagine e un formato di scrittura né troppo piccolo né troppo grande!I tempi di consegna sono stati rispettati ed è arrivato perfettamente integro!Io sono stata molto fortunata e l'ho acquistato a 6 euro!

A quite astonishing achievement. A chronicle of a family from the First World War until the establishment of an Egyptian Republic in the 1950s, revealing much about Egyptian society and politics along the way. The focus in the earlier volumes is the tyrannical patriarch, al-Sayyid Ahmad, a debaucher and a drunk. And a hypocrite. But revered by his family and loved by his friends. To the end his compliant wife refers to him as, ‘my master’. She and his daughters experience life from behind latticed balconies, invisible.By the third volume, al-Sayyid Ahmad’s powers, and his authority over his family, have diminished. Their world is increasingly darkened by disease, death and war: British rule a constant grievance. His two daughters have married, his oldest son is into his third, socially unacceptable, marriage; his middle son killed as a martyr in a pro-independence demonstration.The younger daughter, beautiful, is widowed; the older, combative, with a much older but conciliatory husband, is more fortunate. Her two sons, one a Communist the other a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, take the story to its end.The style in some ways foreshadows that of Alaa al-Aswany, episodic but endlessly fascinating.It is al-Sayyid Ahmad’s youngest son, Kamal, who will always remain with me. In the first volume he is an appealing child, in the second, hopelessly in love with Aïda and Platonically infatuated with her brother. In the third, despairing, disillusioned, astonished by ‘the disappearance of the world’s splendid dreams, and the eternal loss of that enchanted past’. A trajectory echoing Tolstoy’s Childhood, Boyhood and Youth.But Mahfouz’ message is crystallised in the final pages by one of al-Sayyid Ahmad’s grandsons: ‘The duty common to all human beings is perpetual revolution, and that is nothing other than an unceasing effort to further the will of life represented by its progress toward the ideal’.After 1,300 pages, I only wanted to return to page 1, to re-immerse myself in Mahfouz’ extraordinary world.

The print is very small hardly I can read it. I am quite disappointed as I didn’t mind paying.

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