North Africa
Egypt
Post-colonial
Arabic
Fiction
Second volume of the Cairo Trilogy, following the al-Jawad family into the 1920s as sons come of age, the patriarch continues his hypocritical double life, and Egypt's nationalist movement grows.
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Part of the Nobel Prize-winning Cairo Trilogy, the most celebrated work of Arabic literature
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editorial-summarynot primary textSecond volume of the Cairo Trilogy, following the al-Jawad family into the 1920s as sons come of age, the patriarch continues his hypocritical double life, and Egypt's nationalist movement grows. Part of the Nobel Prize-winning Cairo Trilogy, the most celebrated work of Arabic literature
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