{"product_id":"cairo-trilogy-book-naguib-mahfouz-9780375413315","title":"The Cairo Trilogy","description":"\u003cb\u003eNobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt--\u003ci\u003ePalace Walk\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePalace of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSugar Street\u003c\/i\u003e--together for the first time in one beautiful hardcover volume.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The masterwork of the Nobel Prize-winning author, the three novels of \u003ci\u003eThe Cairo Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. \u003ci\u003ePalace Walk\u003c\/i\u003e introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sons-the tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolute hedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching intellectual Kamal. Al-Sayyid Ahmad's rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination in \u003ci\u003ePalace of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e, as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s. \u003ci\u003eSugar Street\u003c\/i\u003e brings Mahfouz's vivid tapestry of an evolving Egypt to a dramatic climax as the aging patriarch sees one grandson become a communist, one a Muslim fundamentalist, and one the lover of a powerful politician.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Throughout the trilogy, the family's trials mirror those of their turbulent country during the years spanning the two World Wars, as change comes to a society that has resisted it for centuries. Filled with compelling drama, earthy humor, and remarkable insight, \"\u003ci\u003eThe Cairo Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e extends our knowledge of life; it also confirms it\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49778473861393,"sku":"CIN0375413316A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49787391344913,"sku":"CIN0375413316G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50479513239825,"sku":"GOR002648616","price":24.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50579835552017,"sku":"CIN0375413316VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50685555179793,"sku":"GOR008682114","price":60.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50957108674833,"sku":"GOR005795149","price":22.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51001841516817,"sku":"NIN9780375413315","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53334647079185,"sku":"GOR007564573","price":20.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0375413316.jpg?v=1751166194","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/cairo-trilogy-book-naguib-mahfouz-9780375413315","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}