The Cairo Trilogy Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street; Introduction by Sabry Hafez
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Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
1
Fr. 31.90
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Produktdetails
Format
ePUB 3
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
15.06.2016
Verlag
Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupSeitenzahl
1368 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
3306 KB
Übersetzt von
William Maynard Hutchins + weitere
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780525432029
Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt-Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street-together in one volume.
The masterwork of the Nobel Prize-winning author, the three novels of The Cairo Trilogy 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. Palace Walk 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 Palace of Desire, as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s. Sugar Street 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.
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, "The Cairo Trilogy extends our knowledge of life; it also confirms it" (The Boston Globe).
The masterwork of the Nobel Prize-winning author, the three novels of The Cairo Trilogy 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. Palace Walk 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 Palace of Desire, as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s. Sugar Street 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.
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, "The Cairo Trilogy extends our knowledge of life; it also confirms it" (The Boston Globe).
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Grandioser Generationenroman
Jakob Arnim-Ellissen aus Wien am 06.05.2016
Bewertungsnummer: 950967
Bewertet: Buch (Gebundene Ausgabe)
Diese Geschichte einer ägyptischen Familie begleitet mich seit mehreren Jahren. Gekauft in Kairo 2012 liegt der Wälzer seitdem neben meinem Bett. Mal lese ich es täglich, mal bleibt es monatelang unberührt. Und trotzdem finde ich mich stets sofort zurecht, wenn ich zu den Al-Jawads ins Kairo der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts zurückkehre. Ein unbeschreiblich guter Erzähler.