The Cairo Trilogy：Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street

图书标准信息

• 作者 Naguib Mahfouz 著
• 出版社 Random House US
• 出版时间 2011-12
• 版次 1
• ISBN 9780375413315
• 定价 261.60元
• 装帧 精装
• 开本 32开
• 纸张 胶版纸
• 页数 1368页
• 正文语种 英语
• 丛书 Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics

【内容简介】

NaguibMahfouz’smagnificentepictrilogyofcolonialEgyptappearshereinonevolumeforthefirsttime.TheNobelPrize—winningwriter’smasterworkistheengrossingstoryofaMuslimfamilyinCairoduringBritain’soccupationofEgyptintheearlydecadesofthetwentiethcentury.

ThenovelsofTheCairoTrilogytracethreegenerationsofthefamilyoftyrannicalpatriarchAl-SayyidAhmadAbdal-Jawad,whoruleshishouseholdwithastricthandwhilelivingasecretlifeofself-indulgence.PalaceWalkintroducesustohisgentle,oppressedwife,Amina,hiscloistereddaughters,AishaandKhadija,andhisthreesons–thetragicandidealisticFahmy,thedissolutehedonistYasin,andthesoul-searchingintellectualKamal.Al-SayyidAhmad’srebelliouschildrenstruggletomovebeyondhisdominationinPalaceofDesire,astheworldaroundthemopenstothecurrentsofmodernityandpoliticalanddomesticturmoilbroughtbythe1920s.SugarStreetbringsMahfouz’svividtapestryofanevolvingEgypttoadramaticclimaxastheagingpatriarchseesonegrandsonbecomeaCommunist,oneaMuslimfundamentalist,andonetheloverofapowerfulpolitician.

Throughoutthetrilogy,thefamily’strialsmirrorthoseoftheirturbulentcountryduringtheyearsspanningthetwoWorldWars,aschangecomestoasocietythathasresisteditforcenturies.Filledwithcompellingdrama,earthyhumor,andremarkableinsight,TheCairoTrilogyistheachievementofamasterstoryteller.

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【作者简介】

NaguibMahfouzwasborninCairoin1911andbeganwritingwhenhewasseventeen.Astudentofphilosophyandanavidreader,hehasbeeninfluencedbymanyWesternwriters,includingFlaubert,Balzac,Zola,Camus,Tolstoy,Dostoevsky,and,aboveall,Proust.Hehasmorethanthirtynovelstohiscredit,rangingfromhisearliesthistoricalromancestohismostrecentexperimentalnovels.In1988,MahfouzwasawardedtheNobelPrizeforLiterature.HelivesintheCairosuburbofAgouza.