The Cairo Trilogy av Naguib Mahfouz

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<p>Naguib Mahfouz¿s magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. <br><br><b>The Nobel Prize-winning writer¿s masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain¿s occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century.</b><br><br>The novels of <i>The Cairo Trilogy</i> 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.<br><br><i>Palace Walk</i> 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. <br><br>Al-Sayyid Ahmad¿s rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination in <i>Palace of Desire</i>, as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought b