Sugar Street The Cairo Trilogy Volume 3 by Naguib Mahfouz

Sugar Street is the final novel in Nobel Prizewinner Naguib Mahfouzs magnificent Cairo Trilogy an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork. The novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch alSayyid Ahmad Abd alJawad who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of selfindulgence. Sugar Street brings Mahfouzs vivid tapestry of an evolving Egypt to a dramatic climax as the aging patriarch sees one