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The Cairo Trilogy

Naguib Mahfouz

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1957
Originally in
Originally in Arabic
Pages
Pages 1300

Three generations of a Cairo merchant's family live under a tyrannical, secretly pleasure-loving father, as wives, sons and grandsons collide with love, faith and Egypt's revolutions.

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.
The Cairo Trilogy, Naguib Mahfouz

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