Sugar Street; The Cairo Trilogy III
Cairo, Egypt: The American University in Cairo Press, 1992. First English Language Edition. Quarter blue cloth with red paper over boards and titling in gilt on the spine. Signed by the author "Naguib Mahfouz / 13-4-1392" Hijri date equals 4-13-1992. 9" x 6.5 ", pp. 2-308,Naguib Mahfouz, (1911 - 2006) has been the only Egyptian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1988). He spent most all of his life in Cairo, where he published his first novel in 1939 and ten more were written before the Egyptian Revolution of July 1952, when he stopped writing for several years. The appearance of the Cairo Triology, (Between-the-Palaces, Palace of Longing, Sugarhouse) in 1957 made him famous throughout the Arab world as a depictor of traditional urban life. Near fine text block with a hint of fade at top of spine and very good DJ, with only light bumping at the extremities. Item #3301
"Lust is a tyrannical beauty readily felled by disgust. The heart cries out as it vainly searches in agonizing despair for eternal bliss. Complaints are endless. Life is a vast swiindle." (p102).
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