Overview
Region

North Africa

Egypt

Era

Post-colonial

Language

Arabic

Genre

Fiction

About This Work

Third and final volume of the Cairo Trilogy, set in the 1930s-40s. The patriarch dies; his grandchildren embrace different political ideologies — communism, Islamism, secularism — as Egypt faces revolution.

Literary Significance

Concludes the Nobel Prize-winning Cairo Trilogy with Egypt's entry into the modern era

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