Ahmad Abd el-Gawwad tiene sometida a su esposa Amina hasta la humillación bajo el férreo yugo de la ley musulmana. Sin embargo, en el barrio es un hombre jovial, aficionado al buen vino y seductor con las mujeres. Los hijos de ambos, Yasín, enamorado como su padre de los placeres mundanos, Jadiga, autoritaria y poco agraciada, Fahmi, impregnado de ideales nacionalistas, Aisha, la bella y el travieso Kamal, son también víctimas directas de la moral hipócrita de Ahmad y viven en un continuo miedo a importunar sus deseos. El enclaustramiento, la resignación, el amor, la política, la religión, la prostitución...son los temas de esta narración de interiores atormentados. Entre dos palacios es el primer volumen de la trilogía. Obra cumbre de Naguib Mahfuz, junto con El palacio del deseo y La azucarera, constituye el retrato de El Cairo por excelencia, una visión, a un tiempo lúcida y cáustica, que ha trascendido épocas y fronteras.
Trilogía de El Cairo Serie
Esta saga épica narra las vidas de un patriarca cairota y sus descendientes a lo largo de tres generaciones. Desde la Revolución Egipcia contra los colonizadores británicos hasta el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la serie ofrece un retrato rico y panorámico de la sociedad y la política egipcias. Sumérgete en las luchas, amores y pérdidas de los personajes mientras navegan por sus destinos en el vibrante y cambiante paisaje de El Cairo.





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The second volume of the highly acclaimed Cairo Trilogy from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Filled with compelling drama, earthy humor, and remarkable insight, Palace Of Desire is the unforgettable story of the violent clash between ideals and realities, dreams and desires.
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Sugar Street
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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.
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