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.

I denne boka griper Mahfouz tilbake til Tusen og en natt. Han beretter om mange av de kjente skikkelsene fra dette verket. Her er Shahrayar, Shahrazad, Sindbad, Aladdin og mange andre. Handlingen er lagt til en arabisk by i en mytisk middelalder, med sultan, handelsmenn og håndverkere. Gode og onde ånder griper hele tiden inn. Ordforklaringer bakerst i boka.

This collection of the author's early tales, reaches back millennia to Egypt's majestic past and brings the world of ancient Egypt face-to-face with our own times.

Naguib Mahfouz is one of the most important writers in contemporary Arabic literature. Winner of the Nobel Prize in 1988 (the only Arab writer to win the prize thus far), his novels helped bring Arabic literature onto the international stage. Far fewer people know his nonfiction works, however-a gap that this book fills. Bringing together Mahfouz's early nonfiction writings (most penned during the 1930s) which have not previously been available in English, this volume offers a rare glimpse into the early development of the renowned author. As these pieces show, Mahfouz was deeply interested in literature and philosophy, and his early writings engage with the origins of philosophy, its development and place in the history of thought, as well its meaning writ large. In his literary essays, he discusses a wide range of authors, from Anton Chekov to his own Arab contemporaries like Taha Hussein.He also ventures into a host of important contemporary issues, including science and modernity, the growing movement for women's rights in the Arab world, and emerging ideologies like socialism-all of which outline the growing challenges to traditional modes of living that we saw all around him.Together, these essays offer a fascinating window not just into the mind of Mahfouz himself but the changing landscape of Egypt during that time, from the development of Islam to the struggles between tradition, modernity, and the influences of the West.

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Follows the Al Jawad family into the awakening world of the 1920's and the sometimes violent clash between Islamic ideals, personal dreams and modern realities. Having given up his vices after his son's death, ageing patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad pursues an arousing lute-player - only to find she has married his eldest son.

"Palace Walk is the first volume of the celebrated "Cairo Trilogy", the story of 20th century Egypt told through the eyes of the Al Jawad family. A sweeping family saga crossing three generations, the trilogy is set in the old quarter of Cairo, and spans the decades for the early part of the century to Nasser's historic overthrow of the old regime in 1952."

Handlingen strekker seg over flere generasjoner og er knyttet til fremvesten av en bydel i Kairo. Patriarken Gebelawi - strøkets stamfar - bygger et palasslignende hus med en høy mur som omkranser et stort område. Gebelawi forviser sin eldste sønn og velger den yngre Adham til å styre boet, men heller ikke han klarer å overholde alle farens forbud. Som i Bibelens og Koranens fortellinger setter den første utdrivelsen i gang opprør og konflikter. Og i fattigstrøkene vokser det etter hvert nederlag frem en lengsel etter en ny leder som kan gjenopprette det tapte paradis.

When Naguib Mahfouz quit his job as a civil servant in 1971, a Nobel Prize in literature was still off on the horizon, as was his global recognition as the central figure of Arab literature. He was just beginning his post on the editorial staff of the Egyptian newspaper "Al-Ahram," and elsewhere in Cairo, Anwar Sadat was just beginning his hugely transformative Egyptian presidency, which would span eleven years and come to be known as the Sadat era. This book offers English-language readers the first glimpse of the Sadat era through Mahfouz s eyes, a collection of pieces that captures one of Egypt s most important decades in the prose of one of the Middle East s most important writers. This volume stitches together a fascinating and vivid account of the dramatic events Sadat s era, from his break with the Soviet Union to the Yom Kippur War with Israel and eventual peace accord and up to his assassination by Islamic extremists in 1981. Through this tumultuous history, Mahfouz takes on a diverse array of political topics including socioeconomic stratification, democracy and dictatorship, and Islam and extremism which are still of crucial relevance to Egypt today.Clear-eyed and direct, the works illuminate Mahfouz s personal and political convictions that were more often hidden in his novels, enriching his better-known corpus with social, political, and ideological context.These writings are a rare treasure, a story of a time of tremendous social and political change in the Middle East told by one if its most iconic authors."

"Palace Walk "is the first novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork. 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. 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. Translated by William Maynard Hutchins and Olive E. Kenny

Beskrivelse mangler. Se gjerne forlagets (The American University in Cairo Press) hjemmeside, der det kan finnes mer informasjon.

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.

Dette er 3. og siste bind i Kairotrilogien. Vi følger fortsatt familien Abd el-Gawwad, i den muslimske delen av Kairo. Datteren Aisja har kommet hjem til foreldrene etter å ha blitt hjemsøkt av mange ulykker. Også Kamal bor hos foreldrene. Han har aldri giftet seg, arbeider som lærer, med et hemmelig liv som radikal skribent. Abd el.Monem og Ahmed tar del i samfunnsutviklingen, den ene er med i det muslimske brorskapet, den andre er en intellektuell gudsfornekter. Med den yngste generasjon i fokus og med et broket teppe av religiøse og politiske motsetninger avsluttes sagaen.

Annet bind i Kairo-trilogien. Vi befinner oss fortsatt hos familien Abd el-Gawwad, i de gamle kvarterene i den muslimske delen av Kairo. Fem år har gått siden sønnen Fahmi ble skutt da han demonstrerte for Egypts uavhengighet fra Storbritannia. Sorgen har tæret på livsnyteren Ahmed, men Allah kan vel ikke mene at en mann skal sørge evig?

Kairo-trilogien i 3 bind 596+508+355 sider SPAR 130 i porto v/kjøp av 3 bind sammen Nagib Mahfouz var en egyptisk forfatter. Mahfouz skrev om lag 30 romaner og novellesamlinger, og han ble i 1988 t...