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Nobel laureate Mahfouz's third volume of his Cairo Trilogy, a stunning portrait of a family in dissolution, mirrors its setting--an Egypt that is adjusting to the modern world.
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The final volume in Nobel laureate Mahfouz's magisterial Cairo trilogy takes the Abd al-Jawad family from a rising tide of nationalist sentiment in 1935 through the darkness and confusion of WW II, as Britain defends an Egypt officially neutral. Yet national politics, for all its importance as background accompaniment here (as in Palace Walk and Palace of Desire), is usually kept just offstage--``They say that Hitler has attacked,'' old family servant Umm Hanafi announces halfway through, and matriarch Amina's final illness coincides with a bombing raid--as Mahfouz continues to dramatize the emergence of modern Egypt through ailing family head Ahmad Abd al-Jawad's family--his sons, sensualistic Yasin and scholarly Kamal; his daughters, prematurely aged widow Aisha and settled wife and mother Khadija; and his five grandchildren. As perennial bachelor Kamal methodically visits his father's favorite brothel and frets about whether to marry, the focus of the trilogy shifts from Palace Walk to Khadija's home with Ibrahim Shawkat on Sugar Street, where the couple's sons--Abd al- Muni'm, turning toward fundamentalist Islam, and increasingly committed Communist Ahmad--argue about their duty to the country and the nature of Egyptian society, but both end meeting the same fate. Meanwhile, Yasin's son Ridwan rises rapidly through the ranks of the civil service with the aid of magnetic, homosexual Pasha Isa, and their sister Karima, like Aisha's daughter Na'ima, prepares to receive the inevitable wedding proposal--though both times from a surprising source. Individual episodes--Ahmad Abd al- Jawad's hazy awareness that his friends are all dying; Kamal's abortive romance with Budur Shaddad, sister of his far-distant first love Aida; and his final tormented guilt over his moral paralysis--show Naguib's Tolstoyan economy at its most dramatic, though the third generation of his family makes a more muted impression than the first two. Mahfouz writes in the great tradition of the 19th-century novel from Balzac to Buddenbrooks. His trilogy shows just how rich and vital that tradition remains in the hands of a master. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Their heads were huddled around the brazier, and their hands were spread over its fire: Amina's thin and gaunt, Aisha's stiff, and Umm Hanafi's like the shell of a turtle. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Ibrahim Shawkat, Umm Hanafi, Ahmad Abd, Riyad Qaldas, Muhammad Iffat, Sugar Street, Hilmi Izzat, Naguib Mahfou, Ali Abd, Isma'il Latif, Adli Karim, Ali Mihran, Wafd Party, Law School, Husayn Shaddad, Palace of Desire Alley, Sa'd Zaghlul, Shaykh Ali, Arts Faculty, Palace Walk, Sawsan Hammad, Isma'il Sidqy, Muhammad Mahmud, Muslim Brethren, Pasha Isa New!
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Their heads were huddled around the brazier, and their hands were spread over its fire: Amina's thin and gaunt, Aisha's stiff, and Umm Hanafi's like the shell of a turtle. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Ibrahim Shawkat, Umm Hanafi, Ahmad Abd, Riyad Qaldas, Muhammad Iffat, Sugar Street, Hilmi Izzat, Naguib Mahfou, Ali Abd, Isma'il Latif, Adli Karim, Ali Mihran, Wafd Party, Law School, Husayn Shaddad, Palace of Desire Alley, Sa'd Zaghlul, Shaykh Ali, Arts Faculty, Palace Walk, Sawsan Hammad, Isma'il Sidqy, Muhammad Mahmud, Muslim Brethren, Pasha Isa New!
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- History of Modern Philosophy: v. 2 by Harold Höffding on page 96
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- Freedom and Religion in Kant and His Immediate Successors: The Vocation of Humankind, 1774-1800 by George di Giovanni in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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