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Book Review
Apr. 8th, 2025 10:38 pmSugar Street
by Naguib Mahfouz
This is the final volume of the Cairo Trilogy, ending right at the close of WWII. Here we see the older generation pass away and the third generation of the family achieve adulthood and independence. Kamal, the youngest son, sees the last vestiges of his youth pass out of his life and appears to settle into his life of bachelorhood and intellectualism. Egypt continues to change both politically and socially, resulting in the grandsons steering their lives very differently than their elders did.
Mahfouz is a good writer and spins a fascinating narrative out of everyday lives and people and makes the ordinary beautiful. I got very involved in the lives of the family members. Unfortunately, Mahfouz is remarkably uninterested in the lives of his women characters. He rarely and briefly delves into their inner lives or dreams, and does not have them drive the plot in any way that is significant or independent of the men.
by Naguib Mahfouz
This is the final volume of the Cairo Trilogy, ending right at the close of WWII. Here we see the older generation pass away and the third generation of the family achieve adulthood and independence. Kamal, the youngest son, sees the last vestiges of his youth pass out of his life and appears to settle into his life of bachelorhood and intellectualism. Egypt continues to change both politically and socially, resulting in the grandsons steering their lives very differently than their elders did.
Mahfouz is a good writer and spins a fascinating narrative out of everyday lives and people and makes the ordinary beautiful. I got very involved in the lives of the family members. Unfortunately, Mahfouz is remarkably uninterested in the lives of his women characters. He rarely and briefly delves into their inner lives or dreams, and does not have them drive the plot in any way that is significant or independent of the men.
