Sugar Street is the final novel in Nobel Prize-winner
Naguib Mahfouz’s 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 al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who
rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life
of self-indulgence. 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. Filled
with compelling drama, earthy humor, and remarkable insight,
Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy is the achievement of a master
storyteller.
Translated by William Maynard Hutchins and Angele Botros
Samaan