Le point de vue de l'éditeur La rue d'Al-Nahhasin n'était pas une rue calme ... La harangue des camelots, le marchandage des clients, les invocations des illuminés de passage, les plaisanteries des chalands s'y fondaient en un concert de voix pointues ... Les questions les plus privées en pénétraient les moindres recoins, s'élevaient jusqu'à ses minarets ... Pourtant, une clameur soudaine s'éleva, d'abord lointaine, comme le mugissement des vagues, elle commença à s'enfler, s'amplifier, jusqu'à ressembler à la plainte sibilante du vent ... Elle semblait étrange, insolite, même dans cette rue criante ... C'est ici, dans les rues du Caire, que Naguib Mahfouz, le Zola du Nil, a promené son miroir et capté toutes les facettes d'une société égyptienne en pleine évolution. Naguib Mahfouz est le premier écrivain de langue arabe à avoir reçu, en 1988, le prix Nobel de Littérature.
La Trilogie du Caire Séries
Cette saga épique retrace la vie d'un patriarche cairote et de ses descendants sur trois générations. Depuis la Révolution égyptienne contre les colonisateurs britanniques jusqu'à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la série offre un riche portrait panoramique de la société et de la politique égyptiennes. Plongez dans les luttes, les amours et les pertes des personnages alors qu'ils naviguent leur destin dans le paysage vibrant et changeant du Caire.






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The second volume of the highly acclaimed Cairo Trilogy from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Filled with compelling drama, earthy humor, and remarkable insight, Palace Of Desire is the unforgettable story of the violent clash between ideals and realities, dreams and desires.
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Palace of Desire
- 432pages
- 16 heures de lecture
In paperback for the first time, Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz's bestselling Palace of Desire will be published to coincide with Doubleday's publication of Sugar Street, the third and final volume of the Cairo Trilogy.
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Sugar Street
- 320pages
- 12 heures de lecture
Sugar Street is the third and concluding volume of the celebrated Cairo Trilogy, which brings the story of Al-Sayid Ahmad and his family up to the middle of the twentieth century.Aging and ill, the family patriarch surveys the world from his housewares's latticed balcony, as his long-suffering wife once did. While his children face middle age, it is through his grandsons that we see a modern Egypt emerging.
The Cairo trilogy
- 1313pages
- 46 heures de lecture
Mahfouz's trilogy tells the story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early and middle years of the 20th century. Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. 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. 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.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 ageing 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 humour and remarkable insight, The Cairo Trilogy is the achievement of a master storyteller
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street; Introduction by Sabry Hafez
- 1368pages
- 48 heures de lecture
A series of historical fiction based on the life of a family living in Cairo during the British Colonial period and afterward
