The Cairo Trilogy - Palace Walk; Palace of Desire; Sugar Street

London: Everyman's Library, 2001. A Fine unmarked copy with no inscriptions with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xliii + 1313 pages. Page marker bound in. Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006), was a prolific Egyptian writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. This magnificent trilogy, appearing for the first time in one volume, is his masterwork. It is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain's occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the 20th century. The trilogy traces three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Ab al-Jawad, who rules his family with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.2 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST S. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.