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1) Miramar
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
A highly charged, tightly written tale of intersecting lives that provides us with both an engaging and powerful story as well as a vivid portrait of life in Egypt in the late 1960's.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
The tale of a Mafia-like don in Egypt. He lives in a mansion in Cairo, uphill at the end of an alley whose inhabitants he exploits. He is the patriarch of a large family whose wealth comes from dealing in drugs and various protection rackets. While family members jockey for power, the people below live in squalor, dreaming of the revolutionary heroes their poverty produced. An expose of injustice in Egypt by a Nobel Prize winner and author of 30 novels....
3) Sugar street
Author
Series
Cairo trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Story of the family of al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad moving into the middle of the twentieth century while the seeds of contemporary Egypt are sown.
Author
Series
Cairo trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Continuing the story of al-Sayyid Ahmad and his family, this is a fascinating look at Egypt in the 1920s. Increased personal freedoms mix tenuously with traditions of family control, as two of Ahmad's sons court alluring women.
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"Naguib Mahfouz brings us the story of Akhenaten, or the "sun king," whose monotheistic beliefs eventually earned him a reputation as the most infamous ruler of ancient Egypt and the epithet "heretic pharaoh."" "Narrating the novel is a young man with a passion for the truth, who sets out to question Akhenaten's contemporaries, including his closest friends, his worst enemies, and finally, his wife, Nefertiti, years after the king's death in an effort...
7) Palace walk
Author
Series
Cairo trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
The engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1900's. Arabic title: Bayn al-Qasrayn. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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