Sugar Street (novel)
''Sugar Street'' ( ar, السكرية, as-Sukkariyya), first published in 1957, is the third novel in the Cairo Trilogy by Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz. In this third novel, the main character Kamal, the youngest son of Ahmad 'Abd al-Jawad who is a young child in the first and a student in the second, is a teacher. Summary The novel is set in the period between 1935 and into World War II. World and even national politics are in the background, including the Kingdom of Egypt#Aftermath of World War I, rise of Egyptian nationalism in the 1930s and the official neutrality of Egypt during the war, though certain events in the novel are punctuated by history, such as the illness and death of Amina, the family's matriarch, during which a bombing raid takes place. Like the earlier novels, its location is the Gamaliya district of Cairo, Mahfouz's home district. The family consists of Ahmad Abd al-Jawad's two sons, Yasin, a sensual man, and the younger and more studious Kamal; two da ...
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