North Africa
Egypt
Post-colonial
Arabic
Fiction
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.
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Concludes the Nobel Prize-winning Cairo Trilogy with Egypt's entry into the modern era
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editorial-summarynot primary textThird 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. Concludes the Nobel Prize-winning Cairo Trilogy with Egypt's entry into the modern era
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