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Resumen: Palace of Desire is the second volume of the celebrated Cairo Trilogy, in which the story of Al-Sayid Ahmad and his family is continued. Here we find the ageing patriarch pursuing a sexually alluring dancer - only to find she has married his eldest son. Meanwhile, the women of the family test the loosening reins of parental and societal domination and the idealistic younger son ardendy courts a rich, sophisticated young woman, in an affecting portrayal of unrequited love that is in many ways a portrait of the young Mahfouz.

Resumen: Palace WaIk is the first volume of the celebrated Cairo Trilogy, the story of twentieth-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 from the turn of the century to Nasser's historic overthrowal of the old regime in 1952. Palace Walk opens in 1902. Ahmad, a prosperous shopkeeper, is a tyrant at home, who terrorises his devoted wife Amina and keeps her in strict seclusion behind the house's Iatticed windows. One day, however, Amina is persuaded to venture outside by her young son, but is discovered by Ahmad, who consequently banishes her from his home. As the story unfoIds, we discover the sleazier side of Cairo and begin to see Ahmad's behaviour is not quite as moral as he wouId have his famiIy believe..

Resumen: Sugar Street is third and cloncluding volume of of the celebreted Cairo Trilogy, which brings the story of Al-Sayid Ahmad and his family up to the middle of the twentieth century. Ageing and ill, the family patriarch surveys the world from his house's latticed balcony, as his long-suffering wife once did. While his children face middle age, it is through bis grandsons that we see a modern Egypt emerging.