Cairo Trilogy

Cairo Trilogy

The Cairo Trilogy is a trilogy of novels written by Egyptian novelist and Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.

The three novels are, in order:

* "Palace Walk" (original Arabic title: "Bein el-Qasrein", 1956)
* "Palace of Desire" ("Qasr el-Shoaq", 1957)
* "Sugar Street" ("El-Sukkareyya", 1957)

The books' titles are taken from actual streets in Cairo, the city of Mahfouz's childhood and youth.

The trilogy follows the life of the Cairene patriarch El-Sayyid Ahmad Abdel Gawad and his family across three generations, from World War I to the overthrow of King Farouk in 1952.

Kamal who is the youngest son of El-Sayyid Ahmad Abdel Gawad. The three novels represent the three phases of Kamal's life from childhood to youth to adulthood.


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