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